Prognostic impact of reoxygenation in advanced cancer of the head and neck during the initial course of chemoradiation or radiotherapy alone

Head and Neck

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-58

  Dietz, Andreas ^a   Vanselow, Bernhard ^b   Rudat, Volker ^c   Conradt, Christian ^c   Weidauer, Hagen ^a   Kallinowski, Friedrich ^c   Dollner, Ralph ^a  

^a Department of Otolaryngology ^*  (Germany)

^b St Vincentius Hospital   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chemoradiation; Head and neck; Prognostic factor; Radiotherapy; Reoxygenation; Tumor oxygenation

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; OXYGEN TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REOXYGENATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA; CELL HYPOXIA; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037216376     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.10177     Document Type: Article

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