Effectiveness of adjuvant radiotherapy in patients with oropharyngeal and floor of mouth squamous cell carcinoma and concomitant histological verification of singular ipsilateral cervical lymph node metastasis (pN1-state) - A prospective multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial using a comprehensive cohort design

Trials

Volumn 10, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Moergel, Maximilian ^a   Jahn Eimermacher, Antje ^b   Krummenauer, Frank ^c   Reichert, Torsten E ^d   Wagner, Wilfried ^a   Wendt, Thomas G ^e   Werner, Jochen A ^f   Al Nawas, Bilal ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^e JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^f PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMED CONSENT; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; FOLLOW UP; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT;

EID: 74749109663     PISSN: 17456215     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-10-118     Document Type: Article

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