Evaluation of objective measures of smoking status: A prospective clinical study in a group of head and neck cancer patients treated with radiotherapy

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 154-159

  Hald, Jonas ^a   Overgaard, Jens ^b   Grau, Cai ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON MONOXIDE; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

EXPIRED AIR;

ONCOLOGY;

CARBON MONOXIDE; COTININE; NICOTINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSAY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EVALUATION; EXPIRED AIR; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BREATH TESTS; CARBON MONOXIDE; COTININE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF DISCLOSURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION;

EID: 0037688025     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860310005020     Document Type: Article

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