Reirradiation of locally recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 179, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 298-305

  Lengyel, Erzsébet ^a   Baricza, Károly ^a   Somogyi, Andreás ^a   Olajos, Judit ^b   Pápai, Zsuzsanna ^a   Gödény, Miria ^a   Németh, Gyorgy ^a,c   Ésikl, Olga ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b Josa Andras Hospital   (Hungary)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Recurrent disease; Reirradiation

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE; VINCRISTINE;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLOSSOPHARYNGEAL NERVE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NECK DISSECTION; NECROSIS; NERVE PARALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SOFT PALATE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; XEROSTOMIA;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0038476213     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-003-1048-6     Document Type: Article

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