Carbon ion therapy for advanced sinonasal malignancies: Feasibility and acute toxicity

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Jensen, Alexandra D ^a   Nikoghosyan, Anna V ^a   Ecker, Swantje ^b   Ellerbrock, Malte ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Münter, Marc W ^a  

^a Dept of Radiation Oncology INF 400 ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSGEUSIA; DYSPHAGIA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; ION THERAPY; MAXILLARY SINUS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NOSE CAVITY; PARANASAL SINUS CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; TASTE DISCRIMINATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; XEROSTOMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE TUMOR; PARANASAL SINUS TUMOR; PATHOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE NEOPLASMS; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953290194     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-6-30     Document Type: Article

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