Radiotherapy for carcinomas of the head and neck in elderly patients

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 172, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 485-488

  Huguenin, P ^a   Sauer, M ^b   Glanzmann, C ^a   Lutolf U M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Radiation Oncology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029836318     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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