Role of the Physician Versus the Patient in the Detection of Recurrent Disease Following Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer

Laryngoscope

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 232-235

  Agrawal, Amit ^a,b   DeSilva, Brad W ^a   Buckley, Brooke M ^a   Schuller, David E ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Recurrence; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ANAMNESIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NECK TUMOR; PAIN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STANDARDIZATION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; ULCER;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PATIENTS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF-EXAMINATION;

EID: 0842342682     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200402000-00011     Document Type: Review

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