Post-operative radiochemotherapy of the head and neck: Towards new standards?;Chimioradiothérapie postopératoire des cancers des voies aérodigestives : vers un nouveau standard ?

Cancer/Radiotherapie

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 217-221

  Zouhair, A ^a   Matzinger, O ^a   Azria, D ^b   Gaye, M P ^a   Ugurluer, G ^a   El Hfid, M ^a   Mirimanoff, R O ^a   Ozsahin, M ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b CENTRE VAL D AURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Head and neck cancer; Postoperative; Radiochemotherapy; Radiotherapy; Review

Indexed keywords

ANTIMITOTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C; PLATINUM COMPLEX;

ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SHORT SURVEY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PALLIATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77952548547     PISSN: 12783218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canrad.2010.03.001     Document Type: Short Survey

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