Control of nodal metastases in squamous cell head and neck cancer treated by radiation therapy or chemoradiation

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 39-44

  Vergeer, Marije R ^a   Doornaert, Patricia ^a   Rene Leemans C ^a   Buter, Jan ^b   Slotman, Ben J ^a   Langendijk, Johannes A ^c  

^a Department of Radiation Oncology ^*

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Prognostic factors; Radiotherapy; Regional control

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG USE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR NECROSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; CISPLATIN; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33646205443     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.03.008     Document Type: Article

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