Toxicity of two cisplatin-based radiochemotherapy regimens for the treatment of patients with stage III/IV head and neck cancer

Head and Neck

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 235-241

  Rades, Dirk ^a   Fehlauer, Fabian ^b   Sheikh Sarraf, Mashid ^b   Kazic, Nadja ^c   Basic, Hiba ^c   Poorter, Robert ^d   Hakim, Samer G ^a   Schild, Steven E ^e   Dunst, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c University Hospital   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^d DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cisplatin; Head and neck cancer; Radiochemotherapy; Stage III IV; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; FUROSEMIDE; ONDANSETRON;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEPHROTOXICITY; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 39149134932     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20683     Document Type: Article

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