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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...
Autores principales: | Charnley, N, Choudhury, A, Chesser, P, Cooper, R A, Sebag-Montefiore, D |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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