Complete remission after neoadjuvant chemoradiation in a stage IV vulvar cancer patient

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 184, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 421-425

  Bischoff, Annett ^a   Marnitz, Simone ^a   Köhler, Christhardt ^a   Kurzeja, Roberto ^a   Morawietz, Lars ^a   Schneider, Achim ^a   Budach, Volker ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Advanced vulvar cancer; Exenterative surgery; Laparoscopic staging; Neoadjuvant radiochemotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DESQUAMATION; FATIGUE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PAINFUL DEFECATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVA CANCER; VULVECTOMY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BOWEN DISEASE; CANCER INVASION; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS TYPE 16; LYMPH NODE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CANCER; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; VIRUS INFECTION; VULVA; VULVA TUMOR;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BOWEN'S DISEASE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN PAPILLOMAVIRUS 16; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PAPILLOMAVIRUS INFECTIONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RECTUM; SKIN NEOPLASMS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VULVA; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 56149114788     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-008-1820-8     Document Type: Article

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