Efficiency of electrochemotherapy with reduced bleomycin dose in the treatment of nonmelanoma head and neck skin cancer: Preliminary results

Head and Neck

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 120-125

  Groselj, Ales ^a,b   Bosnjak, Masa ^c   Strojan, Primoz ^b,c   Krzan, Mojca ^b   Cemazar, Maja ^c,d   Sersa, Gregor ^b,c  

^a University Medical Centre Ljubljana   (Slovakia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Slovenia)

^d University of Primorska   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

basal cell carcinoma; bleomycin; electrochemotherapy; head and neck; squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MALE; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN TOXICITY; SKIN ULCER; SQUAMOUS CELL SKIN CARCINOMA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AGE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN TUMOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR INVASION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLEOMYCIN; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROCHEMOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN NEOPLASMS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85033562668     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.24991     Document Type: Article

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