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Hommage au Pr Maurice Tubiana
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Open AccessDecreased DNA-PK activity in human cancer cells exhibiting hypersensitivity to low-dose irradiation
Low-dose hyper-radiosensitivity (HRS) (below 0.5 Gy) has been extensively documented in the past few years. The molecular basis of this phenomenon remains largely unknown and the purpose of this study was to i...
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Open AccessSecond malignant neoplasms after a first cancer in childhood: temporal pattern of risk according to type of treatment
The variation in the risk of solid second malignant neoplasms (SMN) with time since first cancer during childhood has been previously reported. However, no study has been performed that controls for the distri...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Treatment of Oropharynx Carcinomas: Experience at the Institut Gustave-Roussy
Radiotheraphy (RT) alone is he preffered treatment of oropharynx carcinomas T1, T2, N0 and N1 at te Institut Gustave-Roussy (IGR). More advanced or ulcerative tumours are treated with surgery combined with RT....
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Principles and techniques of irradiation for the N0 neck
The absence of palpable lymph nodes is one of the important elements in the choice of treatment of head and neck cancers. Irradiation of the neck represents one possible treatment chosen on the basis of histor...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Perioperative chemotherapy in hypopharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (SCC)
This study was designed to reduce the rate of distant metastasis and lessen the rate of locoregional recurrences of hypopharyngeal SCC by adding to the initial chemotherapy a post-operative chemotherapy, befor...
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Chapter
Post-Radiotherapy Adjuvant Chemotherapy of Regionally Advanced UNPC: Increase in Disease Free Survival
38 patients with NPC, most of them from North Africa and South of Italy, with histo and serological diagnosis of UNPC (undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma), seen from January ‘83 till December ’84 at the In...
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IgA/EA: Prognosis Marker for Relapse among NPC Patients with Complete Remission after Radiotherapy
A longitudinal multicenter study on nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) was initiated in 1979, with the aim of evaluating the EBV antibody response at various postradiotherapy follow-ups for predicting the long-ter...
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Electron Therapy as a Postoperative Modality for Head and Neck Cancers
Electron therapy, as a postoperative medium for head and neck cancers, has been used for many years at the Gustave-Roussy Institute in Villejuif. This therapy became possible after an Almis-Chalmers betatron w...
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First Results of a Randomized Trial on Immunotherapy of Head and Neck Tumors
Trials of active nonspecific immunotherapy as adjuvant therapy for tumors have increased dramatically in number since the results that have been published on acute leukemia [6] and melanoma [3, 5, 7–9]. In spi...
