Benefits of combined modality treatment of Merkel cell carcinoma of the head and neck: Single institution experience

Journal of Laryngology and Otology

Volumn 127, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 908-916

  Balakrishnan, V ^a   Berry, S ^b   Stew, B ^b   Sizeland, A ^a  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^b ROYAL GLAMORGAN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Combined Modality Therapy; Merkel Cell Tumor; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LOCAL EXCISION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECK DISSECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WIDE EXCISION; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, MERKEL CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884490401     PISSN: 00222151     EISSN: 17485460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022215113001862     Document Type: Article

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