Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) and Fractionated Stereotactic Radiotherapy (FSRT) for children with head-and-neck-rhabdomyosarcoma

BMC Cancer

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Combs, Stephanie E ^a   Behnisch, Wolfgang ^b   Kulozik, Andreas E ^b   Huber, Peter E ^a   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Schulz Ertner, Daniela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CARBOPLATIN; DACTINOMYCIN; ETOPOSIDE; GROWTH HORMONE; IFOSFAMIDE; VINCRISTINE;

ADOLESCENT; ALOPECIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EYELID DISEASE; FACE ASYMMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONATED STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LACRIMATION DISORDER; MALE; METASTASIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRISMUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; PRESCHOOL CHILD; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES;

EID: 36148966644     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-7-177     Document Type: Article

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