Should extrapulmonary small cell cancer be managed like small cell lung cancer?

Cancer

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 888-895

  Brennan, Sinead M ^a   Gregory, Deborah L ^a   Stillie, Alison ^a   Herschtal, Alan ^a   Mac Manus, Michael ^a   Ball, David L ^a  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Extrapulmonary small cell carcinoma; Prophylactic cranial irradiation; Small cell lung cancer

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CENTER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DISTANT METASTASIS; EXTRAPULMONARY SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL IRRADIATION; SMALL CELL CARCINOMA; SOFT TISSUE METASTASIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UROGENITAL TRACT CANCER; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SMALL CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CRANIAL IRRADIATION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; SMOKING; UROGENITAL NEOPLASMS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 76249084084     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.24858     Document Type: Article

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