The role of chemo-Radiotherapy in the management of locally advanced carcinoma of the vulva: Single institutional experience and review of literature

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 22-26

  Tans, Lisa ^a   Ansink, Anca C ^a   Van Rooij, Peter H ^a   Kleijnen, Carin ^b   Mens, Jan W ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

5 fluorouracil; carcinoma of the vulva; chemo radiotherapy; locally advanced disease; mitomycin C

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DESQUAMATION; DIARRHEA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD NECROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; LYMPHEDEMA; MICTURITION DISORDER; NAUSEA; NEUTROPENIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN FIBROSIS; SKIN ULCER; SURVIVAL RATE; TELANGIECTASIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINE INCONTINENCE; URINE RETENTION; VULVA CARCINOMA; VULVA DESQUAMATION; VULVA DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79951659660     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: 1537453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/COC.0b013e3181cae6a1     Document Type: Article

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