Results of radiation therapy for hypopharyngeal carcinoma: Impact of accelerated hyperfractionation on prognosis

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 169-174

  Akimoto, Tetsuo ^a   Mitsuhashi, Norio ^a   Sakurai, Hideyuki ^a   Takahashi, Takeo ^a   Yamakawa, Michitaka ^a   Hayakawa, Kazushige ^a   Kiryu, Yasuo ^a   Niibe, Hideo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accelerated hyperfractionation; Hypopharyngeal carcinoma; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX TUMOR; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030160129     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.jjco.a023202     Document Type: Article

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