Chemoradiotherapy as an alternative to radiotherapy alone in fast proliferating head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

Clinical Cancer Research

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1993-1997

  Corvó, Renzo ^a,b   Giaretti, Walter ^c   Sanguineti, Giuseppe ^b   Geido, Elio ^c   Bacigalupo, Almalina ^b   Orecchia, Roberto ^c   Benasso, Marco ^d   Numico, Gian Mauro ^d   Merlano, Marco ^d   Margarino, Giovanni ^e   Vitale, Vito ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Servizio di Oncologia Radioterapica   (Italy)

^c Laboratorio di Bionsica Citometria   (Italy)

^d Oncologia Medica B   (Italy)

^e Oncologia Chirurgica   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; CISPLATIN; DNA; FLUOROURACIL; THYMIDINE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CELL CYCLE S PHASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL CYCLE; CELL DIVISION; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOTIC INDEX; NEOPLASM STAGING; PILOT PROJECTS; S PHASE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 9844232615     PISSN: 10780432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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