Influence of the delay of adjuvant postoperative radiation therapy on relapse and survival in oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal cancers

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 139-146

  Bastit, Laurent ^a   Blot, Emmanuel ^a,d   Debourdeau, Philippe ^b   Menard, Jean François ^c   Bastit, Philippe ^a   Le Fur, René ^a  

^a CENTRE HENRI BECQUEREL   (France)

^b HIA Desgenettes   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

^d INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Local regional relapse; Prognosis factors; Radiation therapy; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE RISK; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELAPSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TIME; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECURRENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0035174299     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)01376-6     Document Type: Article

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