Radiochemoimmunotherapy with intensity-modulated concomitant boost: Interim analysis of the REACH trial

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Jensen, Alexandra D ^a,b   Krauss, Jürgen ^b   Potthoff, Karin ^a   Simon, Christian ^c   Nikoghosyan, Anna V ^a   Lossner, Karen ^a   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Münter, Marc W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b INF 460 ^*  (Germany)

^c National Centre for Tumour Disease (NCT)   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cetuximab; Concomitant boost; IMRT; Radiochemotherapy; Radioimmunotherapy; SCCHN; Squamous cell head and neck cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; DEXAMETHASONE; DIMETINDENE; FLUOROURACIL; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ACNE; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANAPHYLAXIS; ANEMIA; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPHAGIA; EDEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX EDEMA; LEUKOPENIA; MALE; METASTASIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION RESPONSE; RASH; SEPTIC SHOCK; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN FISSURE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; XEROSTOMIA; CANCER GRADING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; IMMUNOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 84859145230     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-7-57     Document Type: Article

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