Treatment outcomes in anaplastic thyroid carcinoma: Survival improvement in young patients with localized disease treated by combination of surgery and radiotherapy

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2500-2505

  Yau, Thomas ^a   Lo, C Y ^a   Epstein, R J ^a   Lam, A K Y ^a   Wan, K Y ^a   Lang, Brian H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Anaplastic thyroid cancer; Radiotherapy; Surgery; Young age

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANAPLASTIC CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK TUMOR; PROGNOSIS; THYROID CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 50049109956     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-008-0005-0     Document Type: Article

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