Circulating tumour cells in locally advanced head and neck cancer: Preliminary report about their possible role in predicting response to non-surgical treatment and survival

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 48, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 3019-3026

  Buglione, Michela ^a   Grisanti, Salvatore ^c   Almici, Camillo ^c   Mangoni, Monica ^d   Polli, Caterina ^e   Consoli, Francesca ^c   Verardi, Rosanna ^c   Costa, Loredana ^a   Paiar, Fabiola ^d   Pasinetti, Nadia ^a   Bolzoni, Andrea ^b   Marini, Mirella ^c   Simoncini, Edda ^c   Nicolai, Piero ^b   Biti, Gianpaolo ^d   Magrini, Stefano Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^c SPEDALI CIVILI   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^e Hospital Direction Prato's Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Circulating Tumour Cells; Head and neck cancer; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; FLUOROURACIL;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CIRCULATING TUMOR CELL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PARANASAL SINUS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASTIC CELLS, CIRCULATING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867574305     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: 18790852     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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