Examination of laryngoesophageal dysfunction-free survival as an endpoint in nonsurgical treatment of squamous cell carcinomas of the larynx and hypopharynx

Cancer

Volumn 117, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 4447-4451

  Caudell, Jimmy J ^a,b   Carroll, William R ^c   Spencer, Sharon A ^b   Bonner, James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

chemotherapy; hypopharyngeal cancer; laryngeal cancer; larynx preservation; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; PLATINUM COMPLEX; TAXANE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; GASTROSTOMY DEPENDENCE FREE SURVIVAL; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; HYPOPHARYNX SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNGECTOMY FREE SURVIVAL; LARYNGOESOPHAGEAL DYSFUNCTION FREE SURVIVAL; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNX SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 80052926365     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.26066     Document Type: Article

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