Outcomes after radiation therapy with concurrent weekly platinum-based chemotherapy or every-3-4-week 5-fluorouracil-containing regimens for squamous cell carcinoma of the vulva

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 101-107

  Mak, Raymond H ^a   Halasz, Lia M ^a   Tanaka, Cynthia K ^b   Ancukiewicz, Marek ^c   Schultz, Delray J ^d   Russell, Anthony H ^c   Viswanathan, Akila N ^b  

^a HARVARD RADIATION ONCOLOGY PROGRAM   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Radiotherapy; Squamous cell carcinoma; Vulvar cancer

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEHYDRATION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMORRHAGIC CYSTITIS; HUMAN; INFECTION; LEG DISEASE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN TOXICITY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVA CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANOPLATINUM COMPOUNDS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78649908683     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2010.09.004     Document Type: Article

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