Radiotherapy after surgical resection for head and neck mucosal melanoma

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 281-285

  Wu, Abraham J ^a   Gomez, Jennifer ^a   Zhung, Joanne E ^a   Chan, Kelvin ^a   Gomez, Daniel R ^a   Wolden, Suzanne L ^a   Zelefsky, Michael J ^a   Wolchok, Jedd D ^a   Carvajal, Richard D ^a   Chapman, Paul B ^a   Wong, Richard J ^a   Shaha, Ashok R ^a   Kraus, Dennis H ^a   Shah, Jatin P ^a   Lee, Nancy Y ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Hypofractionated; IMRT; Mucosal melanoma; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CRANIOFACIAL SURGERY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MANDIBLE RESECTION; MAXILLA RESECTION; MELANOMA; MOUTH CAVITY; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; OROPHARYNX; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARANASAL SINUS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION SICKNESS; SALIVARY GLAND DISEASE; XEROSTOMIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; MUCOSITIS; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; NOSE NEOPLASMS; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953337213     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: 1537453X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/COC.0b013e3181a879f5     Document Type: Article

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