Pattern of failure after helical tomotherapy in head and neck cancer

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 186, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 511-516

  Farrag, Ashraf ^a   Voordeckers, Mia ^a   Tournel, Koen ^a   De Coninck, Peter ^a   Storme, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Helical tomotherapy; Pattern of failure

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE VOLUME HISTOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OROPHARYNX CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR BIOPSY;

BIOPSY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 77957791565     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-010-2130-5     Document Type: Article

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