Radiochemotherapy including cisplatin alone versus cisplatin + 5-fluorouracil for locally advanced unresectable stage IV squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 185, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 675-681

  Tribius, Silke ^a   Kronemann, Stefanie ^b   Kilic, Yasemin ^a   Schroeder, Ursula ^b   Hakim, Samer ^b   Schild, Steven E ^c   Rades, Dirk ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Locally advanced head and neck cancer; Radiochemotherapy; Toxicity; Treatment outcome

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NAUSEA; NECK FIBROSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; SKIN TOXICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOMITING; XEROSTOMIA;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349775910     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-009-1992-x     Document Type: Article

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