Quality of life of disease-free survivors of advanced (stage III or IV) oropharyngeal cancer

Head and Neck

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 466-473

  Deleyiannis, Frederic W B ^a   Weymuller Jr , Ernest A ^a   Coltrera, Marc D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Oropharyngeal cancer; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MASTICATION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SWALLOWING;

EID: 0030851586     PISSN: 01486403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0347(199709)19:6<466::aid-hed2>3.0.co;2-x     Document Type: Article

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