Tumor volume predicts outcome for advanced head and neck cancer treated with targeted chemoradiotherapy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1742-1749

  Doweck, Ilana ^a   Denys, Douglas ^a   Robbins, K Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced head and neck cancer; Chemoradiation; Prognostic factors; RADPLAT; Tumor volume

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; SODIUM THIOSULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEAD CANCER; HUMAN; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0036789692     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200210000-00006     Document Type: Article

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