Intra-operative radiotherapy - 5 years of experience in the palliative treatment of recurrent and advanced head and neck cancers

Oncology (Switzerland)

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 208-213

  Spaeth, Joachim ^a   Andreopoulos, Demetrios ^b   Unger, Thomas ^a   Beckman, Jacques ^b   Ammon, Jürgen ^b   Schlöndorff, Georg ^a  

^a Department of Ear Nose and Throat Diseases   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Intra operative radiotherapy; Palliative treatment; Quality of life; Tumour control

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; ELECTRON BEAM; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECROSIS; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL LIFE; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030888880     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: 14230232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000227690     Document Type: Article

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