Treatment and prognosis of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma: Experience from a single institution in China

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Sun, Chuanzheng ^a   Li, Qiuli ^b   Hu, Zedong ^a   He, Jiehua ^b   Li, Chao ^c   Li, Guojun ^d   Tao, Xiaofeng ^e   Yang, Ankui ^b  

^a KUNMING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^c Department of Radiation Oncology   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^e SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; ERYTHROPOIETIN; INTERLEUKIN 11; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHINA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROID SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERLEUKIN-11; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84892398040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080011     Document Type: Article

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