Recursive partitioning analysis of 2105 patients treated in Radiation Therapy Oncology Group studies of head and neck cancer

Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1905-1911

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

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RADIATION THERAPY ONCOLOGY GROUP   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^h WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

head and neck neoplasms; prognosis; Radiation Therapy Oncology Group; tumor staging

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REMISSION INDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029927998     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960501)77:9<1905::AID-CNCR22>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Article

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