Evaluation of the dose for postoperative radiation therapy of head and neck cancer: First report of a prospective randomized trial

International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1993, Pages 3-11

  Peters, Lester J ^a   Goepfert, Helmuth ^a   Ang, K Kian ^a   Byers, Robert M ^a   Maor, Moshe H ^a   Guillamondegui, Oscar ^a   Morrison, William H ^a   Weber, Randal S ^a   Garden, Adam S ^a   Frankenthaler, Robert A ^a   Oswald0, Mary J ^a   Brown, Barry W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose optimization; Head and neck neoplasms; Postoperative radiotherapy; Prognostic factors

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0027212468     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0360-3016(93)90167-T     Document Type: Article

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