Volumetric staging (VS) is superior to TNM and AJCC staging in predicting outcome of head and neck cancer treated with IMRT

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 386-394

  Studer, G ^a   Lutolf U M ^a   El Bassiouni, M ^a,b   Rousson, V ^c   Glanzmann, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADVISORY COMMITTEES; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CISPLATIN; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SWITZERLAND; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 34247206597     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860600815407     Document Type: Article

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