The important role of radiotherapy in patients with non-melanoma skin cancer and other cutaneous entities

Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 278-286

  Veness, M J ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; Merkel cell carcinoma; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; COSMETIC; ETOPOSIDE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADNEXA DISEASE; ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANGIOSARCOMA; B CELL LYMPHOMA; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BOWEN DISEASE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMATOFIBROSARCOMA PROTUBERANS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; FIBROMA; FIBROXANTHOMA; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; IN SITU MELANOMA; KAPOSI SARCOMA; KERATOACANTHOMA; LIP CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MALIGNANT LENTIGO; MELANOMA; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERINEURIUM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER; SKIN GRAFT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; T CELL LYMPHOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE ADNEXA CARCINOMA;

HUMANS; MELANOMA; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIATION DOSAGE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 43549106828     PISSN: 17549477     EISSN: 17549485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1673.2008.01956.x     Document Type: Review

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