PET/CT Staging followed by Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) improves treatment outcome of locally advanced pharyngeal carcinoma: A matched-pair comparison

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Rothschild, Sacha ^a,b   Studer, Gabriela ^a   Seifert, Burkhardt ^c   Huguenin, Pia ^b   Glanzmann, Christoph ^a   Bernard, J Bernard ^a   Lütolf, Urs M ^a   Hany, Thomas F ^a   Frank, I Frank ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Kantonsspital Aarau ^*  (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d OSPEDALE SAN GIOVANNI   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHARYNX CANCER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34547446228     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-2-22     Document Type: Article

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