Prognostic factors in head-and-neck cancer patients treated with surgery followed by intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), 3D-conformal radiotherapy, or conventional radiotherapy

Oral Oncology

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 535-543

  Rades, Dirk ^a,b   Fehlauer, Fabian ^a   Wroblesky, Junes ^a   Albers, Dirk ^a   Schild, Steven E ^c   Schmidt, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

3D Conformal radiotherapy; Conventional irradiation; Head and neck cancer; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Prognostic factors; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LARYNX CANCER; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION INJURY; SKIN TOXICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; XEROSTOMIA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34249857364     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2006.05.006     Document Type: Article

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