Multimodality treatments in locally advanced stage thymomas

Hematology/ Oncology and Stem Cell Therapy

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 340-344

  Hassan, Mohammad ^a   Seoud, Diaa Eldin A ^a  

^a Dr Erfan and Bagedo General Hospital   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FATIGUE; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MYASTHENIA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUTROPENIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; REOPERATION; REPEATED DRUG DOSE; STERNAL DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING; CANCER STAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953666051     PISSN: 16583876     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1658-3876(09)50022-2     Document Type: Article

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