Systematic review of case reports on the abscopal effect

Current Problems in Cancer

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 25-37

  Abuodeh, Yazan ^a   Venkat, Puja ^a   Kim, Sungjune ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADENOCARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; FOLLOW UP; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LYMPHOCYTOMA; MELANOMA; MERKEL CELL TUMOR; MIXED CELLULARITY HODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NODULAR LYMPHOCYTE PREDOMINANT HODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; RADIATION DOSE; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; SYSTEMIC DISEASE; THYROID MEDULLARY CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADULT; AGED; BYSTANDER EFFECT; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BYSTANDER EFFECT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84961193536     PISSN: 01470272     EISSN: 15356345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.currproblcancer.2015.10.001     Document Type: Article

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