Evaluation of speech outcomes following treatment of oral and oropharyngeal cancers

Cancer Treatment Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 417-424

  Dwivedi, Raghav C ^a,b   Kazi, Rehan A ^a,b   Agrawal, Nishant ^c   Nutting, Christopher M ^a,b   Clarke, Peter M ^a   Kerawala, Cyrus J ^a   Rhys Evans, Peter H ^a,b   Harrington, Kevin J ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic evaluation; Oral cancer; Oropharyngeal cancer; Perceptual evaluation; Questionnaire evaluation; Speech

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MOUTH CANCER; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OROPHARYNX CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; SPEECH REHABILITATION;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY; SPEECH DISORDERS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 67849101656     PISSN: 03057372     EISSN: 15321967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2009.04.013     Document Type: Review

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