Accelerated versus conventional fractionation in the postoperative irradiation of locally advanced head and neck cancer: influence of tumour proliferation

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1992, Pages 261-266

  Awwad, Hassan K ^a   Khafagy, Yassir ^a   Barsoum, Mohsin ^a   Ezzat, Somiah ^a   El Attar, Inas ^a   Farag, Hamid ^a   Akoush, Hany ^a   Meabid, Hassan ^a   Zaghloul, Mohamed S ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Accelerated fractionation; Fractionation; Head and neck cancer; Linear quadratic model; Postoperative irradiation; Radiobiology; Thymidine labelling index; Tumour growth

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION DOSE HYPERFRACTIONATION;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL DIVISION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SKIN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THYMIDINE; TRITIUM;

EID: 0026740006     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8140(92)90245-P     Document Type: Article

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