Increased treatment-related mortality with additional cisplatin-based chemotherapy in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated with standard radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 279-285

  Zhang, An Mei ^a   Fan, Ye ^a   Wang, Xin Xin ^a   Xie, Qi Chao ^a   Sun, Jian Guo ^a   Chen, Zheng Tang ^a   Zhu, Bo ^a  

^a THIRD MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Meta analysis; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; UFT; VINCRISTINE;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED ANEMIA; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED NAUSEA AND VOMITING; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEUKOPENIA; META ANALYSIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT DURATION;

CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CISPLATIN; HUMANS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84867043552     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2012.08.022     Document Type: Article

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