Effect of Pretreatment Anemia on Treatment Outcome of Concurrent Radiochemotherapy in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 255-260

  Fortin, André ^a   Wang, Chang Shu ^a   Vigneault, Éric ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anemia; Head and neck cancer; Radiochemotherapy

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DECISION MAKING; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PESTICIDE EFFECTS; PLATINUM COMPOUNDS; RANDOM VARIABLES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANEMIA; CIS-PLATIN; CONCURRENT RADIOCHEMOTHERAPY; HAZARD RATIO; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMOGLOBIN CONCENTRATION; LOCAL CONTROL; MULTI-VARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRE TREATMENTS; RADIOCHEMOTHERAPY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

HEMOGLOBIN;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIDE EFFECT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANEMIA; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HEMOGLOBIN A; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49549099977     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.04.079     Document Type: Article

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