Antiangiogenic effects of radiotherapy but not initial microvessel density predict survival in inoperable oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 182, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 149-156

  Lövey, József ^a   Lukits, Júlia ^a   Remenár, Eva ^a   Koronczay, Krísztina ^a   Kásler, Miklós ^a   Németh, György ^a   Tímár, József ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Head and neck cancer; Microvessel density; Prediction; Radiotherapy; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS; ANTIANGIOGENIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INOPERABLE CANCER; MALE; MITOSIS; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PATIENT SELECTION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CANCER STAGING; METHODOLOGY; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); OROPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; SURVIVAL; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646120340     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-006-1447-6     Document Type: Article

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