Long-term quality of life after treatment for locally advanced oropharyngeal carcinoma: Surgery and postoperative radiotherapy versus concurrent chemoradiation

Oral Oncology

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 953-957

  Boscolo Rizzo, Paolo ^a   Stellin, Marco ^a   Fuson, Roberto ^a   Marchiori, Carlo ^a   Gava, Alessandro ^b   Mosto, Maria Cristina Da ^a  

^a Regional Center for Head and Neck Cancer   (Italy)

^b Department of Radiation Oncology Treviso Regional Hospital ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Chemoradiotherapy; Head and neck cancer; Oropharyngeal cancer; Quality of life; Surgery

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER FATIGUE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALOCCLUSION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; QUESTIONNAIRE; SALIVA; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SWALLOWING; TOOTH DISEASE; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70350033525     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2009.06.005     Document Type: Article

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