Postoperative External Beam Radiotherapy for Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Outcomes and Morbidity With Conformal Treatment

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1083-1091

  Schwartz, David L ^a   Lobo, Mark J ^a   Ang, K Kian ^a   Morrison, William H ^a   Rosenthal, David I ^a   Ahamad, Anesa ^a   Evans, Douglas B ^a   Clayman, Gary ^a   Sherman, Steven I ^a   Garden, Adam S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjuvant; Conformal; Differentiated; Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT); Postoperative; Radiotherapy; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT; CONFORMAL; DIFFERENTIATED; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY (IMRT); POSTOPERATIVE; THYROID CANCER;

DECISION MAKING; DOSIMETRY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ANALYSIS;

DISEASE CONTROL;

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ESOPHAGUS STRICTURE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LARYNX EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RELAPSE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649556616     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.09.023     Document Type: Article

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