A retrospective analysis of the use of brachytherapy in relation to early stage squamous cell carcinoma of the oropharynx and its relationship to second primary respiratory and upper digestive tract cancers

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 80, Issue 950, 2007, Pages 121-125

  Kishino, M ^a   Shibuya, Hitoshi ^a   Yoshimura, R ^a   Miura, S M ^a   Watanabe, H ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOLD 198; GOLD;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MOUTH ULCER; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PHARYNX CANCER; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RESPIRATORY TRACT CANCER; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH CANCER; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM TUMOR; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION INJURY; RESPIRATORY TRACT TUMOR; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECOND CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; GOLD RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RESPIRATORY TRACT NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34250196119     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/69420116     Document Type: Article

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