Chemotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: an overview.

Autor: Espinola TE; Dept of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, Tulane Medical Center, New Orleans, LA., White JA
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: The Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society : official organ of the Louisiana State Medical Society [J La State Med Soc] 1990 Jul; Vol. 142 (7), pp. 15-8.
Abstrakt: Chemotherapy is being utilized to treat patients with recurrent tumors and advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Current treatment modalities utilized include intra-arterial chemotherapy, simultaneous and sequential chemotherapy and radiation therapy, and neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Each of these modes of treatment, as well as pharmacology of squamous cell-active chemotherapeutic agents, will be addressed in this review.
Databáze: MEDLINE