Definitive radiotherapy plus regional hyperthermia with or without chemotherapy for superior sulcus tumors: A 20-year, single center experience

Lung Cancer

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 338-343

  Moon, Seung Dae ^a   Ohguri, Takayuki ^a   Imada, Hajime ^b   Yahara, Katsuya ^a   Yamaguchi, Shinsaku ^a   Hanagiri, Takeshi ^a   Yasumoto, Kosei ^a   Yatera, Kazuhiro ^a   Mukae, Hiroshi ^a   Terashima, Hiromi ^c   Korogi, Yukunori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^b Tobata Hospital   (Japan)

^c HARASANSHIN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hyperthermia; Non small cell lung cancer; Pancoast tumor; Radiotherapy; Superior sulcus tumors

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; GIMERACIL PLUS OTERACIL PLUS TEGAFUR; PACLITAXEL; UFT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VINDESINE; VINORELBINE DITARTRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; DRUG EFFICACY; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PANCOAST TUMOR; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PNEUMONIA; RADIOFREQUENCY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; THERMOMETRY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCOAST SYNDROME; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79851513083     PISSN: 01695002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2010.06.007     Document Type: Article

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