Management of anal cancer in 2010 part 2: Current treatment standards and future directions

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Abbas, Ali ^a   Yang, Gary ^b   Fakih, Marwan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; IRIDIUM 192; MITOMYCIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ANAL CANAL ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; ANUS CANCER; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOSTOMY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; EARLY CANCER; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MONOTHERAPY; MUCOSAL DISEASE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; SKIN TOXICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 77954172834     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: 08909091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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