"Watch-and-see" policy for the clinically positive neck in head and neck cancer treated with chemoradiotherapy

International Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 441-448

  Homma, Akihiro ^a   Furuta, Yasushi ^a   Oridate, Nobuhiko ^a   Suzuki, Fumiyuki ^a   Higuchi, Eisaku ^a   Nishioka, Takeshi ^a   Shirato, Hiroki ^a   Nagahashi, Tatsumi ^a   Yagi, Katsunori ^a   Fukuda, Satoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Head and neck cancer; Neck dissection

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NECK DISSECTION; ORGAN PRESERVATION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845765763     PISSN: 13419625     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10147-006-0603-4     Document Type: Article

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