Treatment results of 84 patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma in childhood

Pediatric Blood and Cancer

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 454-458

  Küpeli, Serhan ^a   Varan, Ali ^a   Özyar, Enis ^a   Atahan, I Lale ^a   Yalçin, Bilgehan ^a   Kutluk, Tezer ^a   Akyüz, Canan ^a   Büyükpamukçu, Münevver ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Children; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACTINOMYCIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; METHOTREXATE; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DENTAL CARIES; DRUG RESPONSE; DYSGERMINOMA; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LOG RANK TEST; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SECOND CANCER; SURVIVAL RATE; TRISMUS; XEROSTOMIA;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHILD; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644671846     PISSN: 15455009     EISSN: 15455017     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pbc.20433     Document Type: Article

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