Merkel cell carcinoma: 27-year experience at the Peter Maccallum cancer centre

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1430-1435

  Hui, Andrew C ^a   Stillie, Alison L ^a   Seel, Matthew ^a   Ainslie, Jill ^a  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Merkel cell carcinoma; Radiotherapy; Recurrence; Surgery; Survival

Indexed keywords

COMBINED MODALITY TREATMENT; CONCURRENT CHEMOTHERAPY; DISTANT METASTASIS; HEAD AND NECK; INTEGRAL PART; LOCOREGIONAL CONTROL; LOCOREGIONAL CONTROL RATE; LOCOREGIONAL RECURRENCE; MEDIAN RADIATION; MERKEL CELL CARCINOMA; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RECURRENCE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOMES; TUMOR SIZE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

SURGERY;

CAPECITABINE; CARBOPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; TOXICITY; TUMOR BIOPSY;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ETOPOSIDE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 79960101944     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.04.061     Document Type: Article

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