Follow-Up Study in Head and Neck Cancer: Cure Rate according to Tumor Location and Stage

Oncology (Switzerland)

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 38-42

  Grau, Juan J ^a   Cuchi, Asuncion ^a   Traserra, José ^a   Firvida, José L ^a   Arias, Carlos ^a   Blanch, José L ^a   Estapé, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Follow up; Head and neck cancer; Prognosis; Second malignancies; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOTTIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MOUTH CANCER; NASOPHARYNX; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SECOND CANCER; SMOKING; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031060527     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: 14230232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000227659     Document Type: Article

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