Interstitial low-dose-rate brachytherapy in the treatment of recurrent head and neck malignancies

Head and Neck

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 888-895

  Grimard, Laval ^a   Esche, Bernd ^a   Lamothe, André ^b   Cygler, Joanna ^a   Spaans, Johanna ^c  

^a OTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Cancer; Head and neck; Recurrent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT CANCER; SALVAGE THERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33749344967     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.20422     Document Type: Article

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