Simultaneous radio- and chemotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck in daily clinical practice: 5 Years experience in a University Hospital

Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 729-734

  Langenberg, M ^a   Terhaard, C H J ^a   Hordijk, G J ^a   Van Es, R J J ^a   Voest, E E ^a   De Graeff, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chemoradiation; Simultaneous radio and chemotherapy; Unresectable

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INFECTION; INOPERABLE CANCER; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS; NEPHROTOXICITY; OTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIDE EFFECT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 9344244775     PISSN: 03077772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2273.2004.00892.x     Document Type: Article

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