Risk-group definition by recursive partitioning analysis of patients with squamous cell head and neck carcinoma treated with surgery and postoperative radiotherapy

Cancer

Volumn 104, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1408-1417

  Langendijk, Johannes A ^a,b   Slotman, Ben J ^a   Van Der Waal, Isaac ^a   Doornaert, P ^a   Berkof, Johannes ^a   Leemans, Charles R ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Head and neck carcinoma; Overall treatment time; Prognostic factors; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CODING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURSIVE PARTITIONING ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 25144496948     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.21340     Document Type: Article

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