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The treatment of head and neck carcinoma with Adriamycin and Belomycin using adjuvant hyperthermia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

H. D. Fairman
H. D. Fairman
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Truro
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Summary

Twenty-two cases of carcinoma of the head and neck (predominantly squamous), in a veriety of sites, were treated with an oncolytic regime of Adriamycin and Bleomycin. Adjuvant hyperthermia was given to all cases; differing techniques of drug administration were used, depending on whether a case had received previous irradiation. Twenty-one cases showed response to treatment. Post-irradiation cases fared less well than those in which radiotherapy was synchronised with treatment.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology , Volume 96 , Issue 3 , March 1982 , pp. 251 - 264
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1982

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