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Effective treatment of anal cancer in the elderly with low-dose chemoradiotherapy

Chemoradiotherapy (CRT) is accepted as the standard initial treatment for squamous cell anal cancer. However, frail elderly patients cannot always tolerate full-dose CRT. This paper reports the results of a modified regimen for this group of patients. In all, 16 patients with biopsy-proven squamous...

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Autores principales: Charnley, N, Choudhury, A, Chesser, P, Cooper, R A, Sebag-Montefiore, D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2361984/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15798772
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602486