The dilemma of follow-up in head and neck cancer patients

European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology

Volumn 258, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 177-183

  Haas, Inge ^a   Hauser, Ulrich ^a   Ganzer, Uwe ^a  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Curable recurrences; Follow up concepts; Head and neck cancer; Survival

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NECK METASTASIS; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; RECURRENT CANCER; SECOND CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AFTERCARE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; RETREATMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0035024558     PISSN: 09374477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004050100333     Document Type: Article

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