Multimodal approach to anaplastic thyroid cancer

Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Michele Burnison, C ^a   Lim, Stephen ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AXITINIB; B RAF KINASE; CISPLATIN; COMBRETASTATIN A4 PHOSPHATE; DOCETAXEL; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; IMATINIB; INLYTA; PACLITAXEL; PEPLEOMYCIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE B; PROTEIN P53; SORAFENIB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VALPROIC ACID;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANAPLASTIC THYROID CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BRAF GENE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE COURSE; DISTANT METASTASIS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDEMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FATIGUE; GENE; GENE MUTATION; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; INCIDENCE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; QT PROLONGATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; SKIN DISEASE; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 84860196565     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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