Combination chemotherapy with methotrexate, bleomycin, and cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (11) was compared to weekly therapy with methotrexate alone in a randomized prospective trial in 163 patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cancer of the mucous membranes of the head and neck. The combina
A randomized prospective comparison of intermittent methotrexate, methotrexate with leucovorin and a methotrexate combination in head and neck cancer
โ Scribed by R.C. DeConti; D. Schoenfeld
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1981
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 207 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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