Xerostomia After Treatment for Oral and Oropharyngeal Cancer Using the University of Washington Saliva Domain and a Xerostomia-Related Quality-of-Life Scale

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 16-23

  Rogers, Simon N ^a,b   Johnson, Ian A ^c   Lowe, Derek ^a  

^a EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL AINTREE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Mouth neoplasm; Questionnaires; UW QOL; Xerostomia; Xerostomia related quality of life scale (XeQoLS)

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT RADIOTHERAPY; AFTER-TREATMENT; DRY MOUTH; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OROPHARYNGEAL; OROPHARYNGEAL CANCER; QUALITY-OF-LIFE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON; XEROSTOMIA;

BODY FLUIDS; RADIOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

SURVEYS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTICATION; MOOD; MOUTH CARCINOMA; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; SALIVA; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; SWALLOWING; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE VERSION 4; XEROSTOMIA; XEROSTOMIA RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE SCALE;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DEGLUTITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASTICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALIVA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 77950587884     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.04.021     Document Type: Article

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