Prognostic factors in 677 patients in Singapore with nondisseminated nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Cancer

Volumn 86, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1912-1920

  Heng, Derrick M K ^a   Wee, Joseph ^b   Fong, Kam Weng ^b   Lian, Lay Geok ^b   Sethi, V K ^b   Chua, Eu Tiong ^b   Yang, Tuck Loong ^b   Tan, Hoon Seng Khoo ^b   Lee, Kim Shang ^b   Lee, Khai Mun ^b   Tan, Terence ^b   Chua, Eu Jin ^b  

^a Clin Trials Epidemiol Res U S   (Singapore)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Clinical epidemiological; Cohort; Nasopharyngeal neoplasms; Prognosis; Prognostic; Singapore; Staging; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SINGAPORE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SINGAPORE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033570936     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19991115)86:10<1912::AID-CNCR6>3.0.CO;2-S     Document Type: Article

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