Tumor volume and tumor hypoxia in head and neck cancers: The amount of the hypoxic volume is important

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 179, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 521-526

  Dunst, Jürgen ^a   Stadler, Peter ^b   Becker, Axel ^b   Lautenschläger, Christine ^b   Pelz, Tanja ^b   Hänsgen, Gabriele ^b   Molls, Michael ^b   Kuhnt, Thomas ^b  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Hypoxia; Prognosis; Tumor volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER TISSUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEAD CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECK CANCER; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TUMOR VASCULARIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL HYPOXIA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0041589608     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-003-1066-4     Document Type: Article

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