Oxygenation of head and neck cancer: Changes during radiotherapy and impact on treatment outcome

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 113-117

  Brizel, David M ^a   Dodge, Richard K ^a   Clough, Robert W ^a   Dewhirst, Mark W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Head and neck cancer; Hypoxia; Radiotherapy; Tumor oxygenation

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OXYGEN TISSUE LEVEL; POLAROGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANEMIA; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; OXYGEN; POLAROGRAPHY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032708195     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(99)00102-4     Document Type: Article

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