Management of anal cancer in the HIV-positive population

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1634-1638

  Kauh, John ^a   Koshy, Mary ^a   Gunthel, Clifford ^a   Joyner, Melissa M ^b   Landry, Jerome ^a   Thomas Jr , Charles R ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ANUS CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ANUS TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; ANUS NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644849109     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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