Comparison of RPA-derived staging and AJCC staging in head and neck cancers based on RTOG data

Radiation Oncology Investigations

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 140-144

  Cooper, Jay S ^a   Scott, Charles B ^c   Asbell, Sucha O ^d   Rotman, Marvin ^b   Marcial, Victor ^f   Fu, Karen K ^g   McKenna, W Gillies ^e   Emami, Bahman ^h  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c RADIATION THERAPY ONCOLOGY GROUP   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

head and neck tumors; radiotherapy; recursive partitioning; staging

Indexed keywords

TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029764487     PISSN: 10657541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6823(1996)4:3<140::AID-ROI7>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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