Randomized clinical trial on continuous 7-days-a-week postoperative radiotherapy for high-risk squamous cell head-and-neck cancer: A report on acute normal tissue reactions

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 58-64

  Suwinski, Rafal ^a   Bankowska Wozniak, Magdalena ^b   Majewski, Wojciech ^a   Sowa, Anna ^a   Idasiak, Adam ^a   Ziolkowska, Ewa ^b   Windorbska, Wieslawa ^b   Tarnawski, Rafal ^a   Skladowski, Krzysztof ^a   MacIejewski, Boguslaw ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Regional Oncology Centre Bydgoszcz   (Poland)

Author keywords

7 days a week radiotherapy; Acute reactions; Combined therapy; Head and neck cancer

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ACCELERATION; ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BODY WEIGHT DISORDER; BONE NECROSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPHAGIA; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INCIDENCE; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CANCER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH DISEASE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; OBSERVATION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TISSUE REACTION; ULCER; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOSITIS; RADIATION INJURIES; RISK FACTORS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 27144516386     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2005.07.007     Document Type: Article

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