Prognostic factors in metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Cancer/Radiotherapie

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 461-464

  Khanfir, A ^a   Frikha, M ^a   Ghorbel, A ^a   Drira, M M ^a   Daoud, J ^a  

^a HABIB BOURGUIBA HOSPITAL   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Metastasis; Nasopharynx; Prognosis; Surviva

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; EPIRUBICIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISSEMINATED CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VISCERAL METASTASIS; CANCER STAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; TUNISIA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EPIRUBICIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUNISIA;

EID: 36849037526     PISSN: 12783218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.canrad.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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