Is the 1997 AJCC staging system for nasopharyngeal carcinoma prognostically useful for Chinese patient populations?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1181-1189

  Ma, Jun ^a   Mai, Hai Qiang ^a   Hong, Ming Huang ^a   Cui, Nian Ji ^a   Lu, Tai Xiang ^a   Lu, Li Xia ^a   Mo, Hao Yuan ^a   Min, Hua Qing ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

American Joint Committee on Cancer; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Prognosis; Tumor staging

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISEASES; TUMORS;

PROGNOSIS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHINA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; NASOPHARYNX; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NECK; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RELAPSE; SKULL BASE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; CHINA; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOISOTOPE TELETHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035425402     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(01)01537-1     Document Type: Article

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