## Abstract Combined simultaneous radiotherapy and multidrug chemotherapy have been utilized in an attempt to eradicate or shrink tumors of the head and neck area in advanced stages to allow subsequent surgical extirpation. Thirtyβsix patients (1 stage II; 11 stage III; 24 stage IV; 1 unknown prima
Management of stage IV squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck with chemotherapy - radiotherapy combination
β Scribed by Zbigniew Petrovich; Dennis Casciato; Robert Hittle; Richard Barton; Leopold Jose; Lawrence Stolberg; Helen Service
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 73 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0360-3016
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