Management of locally advanced or unresectable head and neck cancer

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1152-1161

  Culliney, Bruce ^a,b   Birhan, Aminu ^a   Young, Amy V ^a   Choi, Walter ^a   Shulimovich, Maxim ^a   Blum, Ronald H ^a,b  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; FLUOROURACIL; HYDROXYUREA; METHOTREXATE; MITOMYCIN; PACLITAXEL; TAXANE DERIVATIVE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LEUKOPENIA; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; PATIENT CARE; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VOMITING;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 54949133677     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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