Quality of Life of Oral Cancer Patients After Low-Dose-Rate Interstitial Brachytherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 772-778

  Yoshimura, Ryo ichi ^a,b   Shibuya, Hitoshi ^b   Miura, Masahiko ^b   Watanabe, Hiroshi ^b   Ayukawa, Fumio ^b   Hayashi, Keiji ^b   Toda, Kazuma ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Low dose rate interstitial brachytherapy; Oral cancer; QLQ C30; QLQ H N35; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; PATIENT MONITORING; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; TUMORS;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FIRST YEARS; GLOBAL HEALTHS; HEAD AND NECKS; LOW-DOSE-RATE INTERSTITIAL BRACHYTHERAPY; ORAL CANCER; ORAL CANCER PATIENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QLQ-C30; QUALITY OF LIFE; TUMOR SITES; WEIGHT LOSS;

DOSIMETRY;

CESIUM 137; GOLD 198; IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; LOW ENERGY RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MOUTH CANCER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; SALIVA; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SWALLOWING; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; GOLD RADIOISOTOPES; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 59649114553     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.05.001     Document Type: Article

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