Prolonged remission in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma with a solitary bone metastasis

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Lim, Annette ^a   Corry, June ^b   Lau, Eddie ^b   Rischin, Danny ^a  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CERVICAL LYMPHADENOPATHY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; ILIAC CREST; MALE; NASAL BIOPSY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NONKERATINISING NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; MALE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; REMISSION INDUCTION;

EID: 79952139048     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2010.31.9053     Document Type: Article

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