Conventional vs accelerated fractionation in head and neck cancer

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 74, Issue SUPPL. XXVII, 1996, Pages

  Dobrowsky, W ^a   Dobrowsky, E ^b   Naude J ^a   Millesi, W ^a   Pavelka, R ^c   Kautzky, M ^a   Grasl, M ^a   Kohler W ^a   Wilson, G D ^b   Reichel, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c General Hospital Wiener Neustadt   (Austria)

Author keywords

CHART; Hypoxia; Mitomycin C; Potential tumour cell doubling time; Repopulation

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C; MITOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LARYNX; MALE; META ANALYSIS; MOUTH CAVITY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; OROPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TOXICOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 8944241305     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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