Initial clinical experience with helical tomotherapy for head and neck cancer

Head and Neck

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1571-1578

  Chen, Allen M ^a   Jennelle, Richard L S ^a   Sreeraman, Radhika ^a   Yang, Claus C ^a   Liu, Tianxiao ^a   Vijayakumar, Srinivasan ^a   Purdy, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Helical tomotherapy; Intensity modulated radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ERYTHEMA; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MOUTH DISEASE; ODYNOPHAGIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN FISTULA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TASTE DISORDER; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 72449203190     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.21123     Document Type: Article

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