Treatment results of stage I and II oral tongue cancer with interstitial brachytherapy: Maximum tumor thickness is prognostic of nodal metastasis

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 535-539

  Matsuura, Kanji ^a,c   Hirokawa, Yutaka ^a   Fujita, Minoru ^b   Akagi, Yukio ^a   Ito, Katsuhide ^a  

^a Department of Radiology ^*  (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Subsequent regional nodal failure; Tongue cancer; Tumor thickness

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; GAMMA IRRADIATION; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MOUTH CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; TONGUE CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0032005471     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(97)00811-0     Document Type: Article

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