Pretreatment quality of life as a predictor of distant metastasis and survival for patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 28, Issue 28, 2010, Pages 4384-4389

  Fang, Fu Min ^a   Tsai, Wen Ling ^a   Chien, Chih Yen ^a   Chen, Hui Chun ^a   Hsu, An Chih ^a   Huang, Tai Lin ^a   Lee, Tsair Fwu ^a   Huang, Hsuan Ying ^a   Lee, Chien Hung ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTIPATION; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIARRHEA; DISTANT METASTASIS; DYSPNEA; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INSOMNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PAIN; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRETREATMENT QUALITY OF LIFE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VOMITING; ADOLESCENT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; QUESTIONNAIRE; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 78049436084     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2010.28.8324     Document Type: Article

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