Quality of Life after Different Treatment Modalities for Carcinoma of the Oropharynx

Laryngoscope

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1949-1954

  Tschudi, Dominique ^a   Stoeckli, Sandro ^b   Schmid, Stephan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Oropharynx; Quality of life; Radiotherapy; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; EATING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE CORE HEAD AND NECK CANCER MODULE QUESTIONNAIRE 35; QUALITY OF LIFE CORE QUESTIONNAIRE 30; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SWALLOWING; XEROSTOMIA;

AFFECT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CARCINOMA; COGNITION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PHYSICAL FITNESS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0242408177     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200311000-00018     Document Type: Article

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