Surgery alone provides long-term survival rates comparable to those of surgery plus postoperative radiotherapy for patients with adenoid cystic carcinoma of the palate

Oral Oncology

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 170-173

  Li, Qun ^a   Xu, Tao ^b   Gao, Jian Ming ^a   Ye, Wei Jun ^a   Gu, Mo Fa ^a   Hu, Wei Han ^a   Wang, Fang ^a   Cai, Xiu Yu ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Adenoid cystic carcinoma; Metastasis; Neoplasm recurrence; Palate; Postoperative radiotherapy; Salivary gland tumor; Surgery; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALATE DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA, ADENOID CYSTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALATAL NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79952279950     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2010.12.005     Document Type: Article

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