Indications and Outcomes of Radiation Therapy for Skin Cancer of the Head and Neck

Clinics in Plastic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 335-344

  Wang, Yongjin ^a   Wells, Woodrow ^a   Waldron, John ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Indication; Outcome; Radiation therapy; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; EAR CANCER; EYELID CARCINOMA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIP CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NOSE CARCINOMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR VOLUME;

HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 66249138094     PISSN: 00941298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cps.2009.02.008     Document Type: Review

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