Treatment of oropharyngeal carcinoma by irradiation or by surgery

Clinical Otolaryngology and Allied Sciences

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 172-176

  Jones, A S ^a,b   Beasley, N J P ^a   Houghton, D J ^a   Williams, S ^a   Husband, D G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Duncan Building ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Oropharynx; Radiotherapy; Squamous cell carcinoma; Surgery; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SAFETY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0031879428     PISSN: 03077772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2273.1998.00128.x     Document Type: Article

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