Treatment of 37 patients with anaplastic
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Tetsuro Kobayashi; Hideki Asakawa; Koji Umeshita; Tsutomu Takeda; Hirohide Maruy
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Article
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1996
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Background. Most patients with anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid die within several months of diagnosis, and aggressive treatment is uncommon. We evaluated the effect of active multimodal treatment (surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy) on this disease, including one patient treated with autolo