Five-year update of a randomized trial of alternating radiotherapy and chemotherapy compared with radiotherapy alone in treatment of unresectable squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 583-589

  Merlano, Marco ^a   Benasso, Marco ^a   Corvò, Renzo ^a   Rosso, Riccardo ^a   Vitale, Vito ^a   Blengio, Fulvia ^a   Numico, Gianmauro ^a   Margarino, Giovanni ^a   Bonelli, Luigina ^a   Santi, Leonardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; FLUOROURACILE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 9244264477     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/88.9.583     Document Type: Article

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