Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for head and neck cancer

Current Treatment Options in Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-9

  Ozyigit, Gokhan ^b   Yang, Thomas ^b   Chao, K S Clifford ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM THERAPY; BONE NECROSIS; BRAIN NECROSIS; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER SURVIVAL; DOSIMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MODULATION; MYELITIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; REVIEW; XEROSTOMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1542756172     PISSN: 15272729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11864-004-0001-y     Document Type: Review

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