The role of radiotherapy alone in patients with merkel cell carcinoma: Reporting the australian experience of 43 patients

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 703-709

  Veness, Michael ^a   Foote, Matthew ^b   Gebski, Val ^a   Poulsen, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Merkel cell carcinoma; Neuroendocrine; Radiotherapy; Small cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

RADIOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COX REGRESSION ANALYSIS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HAZARD RATIO; HEAD AND NECK; IN-FIELD; LESION SIZE; MERKEL CELL CARCINOMA; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROENDOCRINE; NODAL STATUS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POOR PERFORMANCE; RADIOTHERAPY ALONE; SMALL-CELL CARCINOMA;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CAUCASIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; SECONDARY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUSTRALIA; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77957194083     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.08.011     Document Type: Article

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