Role of External Beam Radiotherapy in Patients With Advanced or Recurrent Nonanaplastic Thyroid Cancer: Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Experience

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 795-801

  Terezakis, Stephanie A ^a   Lee, Kyungmouk S ^a   Ghossein, Ronald A ^a   Rivera, Michael ^a   Tuttle, Robert M ^a   Wolden, Suzanne L ^a   Zelefsky, Michael J ^a   Wong, Richard J ^a   Patel, Snehal G ^a   Pfister, David G ^a   Shaha, Ashok R ^a   Lee, Nancy Y ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; IMRT; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Nonanaplastic; Thyroid; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

IODINE; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY; TOXICITY;

HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; NONANAPLASTIC; THYROID; THYROID CANCER;

DISEASE CONTROL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; DERMATITIS; DISTANT METASTASIS; DYSPHAGIA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEROID THERAPY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN SYNDROME; TASTE DISORDER; THYROID CANCER; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CARCINOMA, MEDULLARY; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; NEW YORK CITY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 59649083178     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.05.012     Document Type: Article

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