Prospective multicenter study of combined treatment with chemotherapy and radiotherapy in breast cancer women with the rare clinical scenario of ipsilateral supraclavicular node recurrence without distant metastases

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-32

  Pergolizzi, Stefano ^a,b   Adamo, Vincenzo ^a   Russi, Elvio ^c   Santacaterina, Anna ^b   Maisano, Roberto ^d   Numico, Gianmauro ^c   Palazzolo, Carmela ^b   Ferraù, Francesco ^c   Settineri, Nicola ^a   Altavilla, Giuseppe ^a   Girlando, Andrea ^e   Spadaro, Pietro ^f   Cascinu, Stefano ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^b Operative Unit of Radiation Oncology   (Italy)

^c Azienda S Croce e Carle ^*  (Italy)

^d BIANCHI MELACRINO MORELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e Centro Catanese di Oncologia   (Italy)

^f Operative Unit of Medical Oncology   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Chemotherapy; Radiotherapy; Supraclavicular nodes

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

BREAST CANCER; INTRAVENOUS CHEMOTHERAPY; SUPRACLAVICULAR NODES;

CHEMOTHERAPY;

ANTHRACYCLINE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CLORFENAMINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOXORUBICIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; ONDANSETRON; PACLITAXEL; PARAMETHASONE; RANITIDINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUTROPENIA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT CANCER; SKIN TOXICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLAVICLE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PACLITAXEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33646489546     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2005.11.010     Document Type: Article

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