Multidisciplinary treatment of malignant thymoma

Current Opinion in Oncology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-122

  Spaggiari, Lorenzo ^a   Casiraghi, Monica ^a   Guarize, Juliana ^a  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

chemotherapy; multidisciplinary treatment; radiotherapy; surgery; thymoma

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADVANCED CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; META ANALYSIS; METASTASIS; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SEX; STERNOTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL RATE; THYMECTOMY; THYMOMA; THYMUS NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84857050383     PISSN: 10408746     EISSN: 1531703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCO.0b013e32834ea6bb     Document Type: Review

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