Staging of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: From Ho's to the new UICC system

International Journal of Cancer

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 179-187

  Lee, Anne W M ^a   Foo, William ^b   Law, Stephen C K ^b   Poon, Y F ^b   O, S K ^c   Tung, Stewart Y ^c   Sze, W M ^a   Chappell, Rick ^a,d   Lau, W H ^b   Ho, John H C ^e  

^a PAMELA YOUDE NETHERSOLE EASTERN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^c TUEN MUN HOSPITAL   (Hong Kong)

^d University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^e Baptist Hospital   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOTOXIC AGENT;

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARCINOMA; CHILD; CRANIAL NERVE DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PARALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033014779     PISSN: 00207136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0215(19990420)84:2<179::AID-IJC15>3.0.CO;2-6     Document Type: Article

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