Tumor hypoxia is independent of hemoglobin and prognostic for loco-regional tumor control after primary radiotherapy in advanced head and neck cancer

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 396-403

  Nordsmark, Marianne ^a   Overgaard, Jens ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OXYGEN TENSION; OXYGENATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL HYPOXIA; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042719231     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860410026189     Document Type: Article

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