Assessment of quality of life in patients treated with accelerated radiotherapy for laryngeal and hypopharyngeal carcinomas

Head and Neck

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 288-293

  Allal, Abdelkarim S ^a   Dulguerov, Pavel ^a   Bieri, Sabine ^a   Lehmann, Willy ^a   Kurtz, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Accelerated radiotherapy; Head and neck cancer; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH; XEROSTOMIA;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033996964     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0347(200005)22:3<288::AID-HED12>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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