Changing quality of life in patients with advanced head and neck cancer after primary radiotherapy or chemoradiation

Oncology

Volumn 68, Issue 4-6, 2005, Pages 405-413

  Fang, Fu Min ^a,b,d   Tsai, Wen Ling ^b,c   Chien, Chih Yen ^a   Chiu, Herng Chia ^b   Wang, Chong Jong ^a   Chen, Hui Chun ^a   Hsiung, Ching Yeh ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b KAOHSIUNG MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c YUNG TA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND COMMERCE   (Taiwan)

^d NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Head and neck cancer; Quality of life; Questionnaires; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DYSPHAGIA; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUTH CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALIVA ANALYSIS; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 23844472279     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000086982     Document Type: Article

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