Anal carcinoma of the elderly treated with radiotherapy alone or with concomitant radio-chemotherapy

Critical Reviews in Oncology/Hematology

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 261-268

  Fallai, Carlo ^a   Cerrotta, Annamaria ^a   Valvo, Francesca ^a   Badii, Donatella ^a   Olmi, Patrizia ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aged; Anal cancer; Concomitant radio chemotherapy; Elderly; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; AGED; ANUS CARCINOMA; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTITIS; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; HUMAN; INGUINAL LYMPH NODE; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PNEUMONIA; PROCTITIS; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VULVOVAGINITIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANUS NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847264048     PISSN: 10408428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.critrevonc.2006.09.003     Document Type: Review

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