Treatment results and prognostic factors of patients undergoing postoperative radiotherapy for laryngeal squamous cell carcinoma

Chinese Journal of Cancer

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 482-489

  Jin, Ting ^a   Hu, Wei Han ^a   Guo, Li Bing ^b   Chen, Wen Kuan ^a   Li, Qiu Li ^a   Lin, Hui ^a   Cai, Xiu Yu ^a   Ge, Nan ^c   Sun, Rui ^a   Bu, Si Yi ^d   Zhang, Xin ^d   Qiu, Meng Yao ^d   Zhang, Wei ^d   Luo, Su ^d   Zhou, Yi Xin ^d  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b GUANGDONG SECOND PROVINCIAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^c Xiangtan Central Hospital   (China)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Larynx; Postoperative radiotherapy; Prognosis factors; Squamous cell carcinoma; Surgery; Survival

Indexed keywords

COBALT 60;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LARYNGECTOMY; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; THERAPY EFFECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGECTOMY; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOISOTOPE TELETHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960498817     PISSN: 1000467X     EISSN: 1944446X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5732/cjc.010.10527     Document Type: Article

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