Does radiotherapy still have a place in Hodgkin lymphoma?

Current Hematologic Malignancy Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 117-124

  Yahalom, Joachim ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CHLORMETHINE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

ADVANCED CANCER; AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG EFFICACY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; MONOTHERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NODULAR LYMPHOCYTE PREDOMINANT HODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650136228     PISSN: 15588211     EISSN: 1558822X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11899-009-0017-2     Document Type: Review

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