A retrospective study of the role of intracavitary brachytherapy and prognotic factors determining local tumour control after primary radical radiotherapy in 903 non-disseminated nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 160-166

  Teo, P M L ^a   Kwan, W H ^a   Yu, P ^a   Lee, W Y ^a   Leung, S F ^a   Choi, P ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Intracavitary brachytherapy; Local control; Local persistence; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Slow tumour regression

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; ORBIT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; SKULL BASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR REGRESSION;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORBITAL NEOPLASMS; PARALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SALVAGE THERAPY; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0029889631     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0936-6555(96)80040-9     Document Type: Article

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