Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy for Early Larynx Cancer: Is There a Role?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-3

  Feigenberg, Steven J ^a   Lango, Miriam ^a   Nicolaou, Nicos ^a   Ridge, John A ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; EARLY CANCER; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNX EDEMA; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TRACHEOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SALIVARY GLANDS; VOCAL CORDS; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 34247137167     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.01.006     Document Type: Editorial

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