Intensity modulated or fractionated stereotactic reirradiation in patients with recurrent nasopharyngeal cancer

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Roeder, Falk ^a,b   Zwicker, Felix ^a,b   Saleh Ebrahimi, Ladan ^a,b   Timke, Carmen ^a,b   Thieke, Christian ^a,b   Bischof, Marc ^a   Debus, Juergen ^a,b   Huber, Peter E ^a,b  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NEUROPATHY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEARING LOSS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; IRRADIATION; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; ODOR; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT CANCER; STEREOTACTIC TREATMENT; SYSTEMIC THERAPY; TASTE; TRISMUS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; XEROSTOMIA; CARCINOMA; EVALUATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952089003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-6-22     Document Type: Article

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