Outcomes of patients with head-and-neck cancer of unknown primary origin treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Shoushtari, Asal ^a   Saylor, Drew ^a   Kerr, Kara Lynne ^a   Sheng, Ke ^a   Thomas, Christopher ^a   Jameson, Mark ^b   Reibel, James ^b   Shonka, David ^b   Levine, Paul ^b   Read, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; IMRT; Unknown primary

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL NODES; CONCURRENT CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROL RATES; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FAILURE PATTERNS; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; THERAPEUTIC AGENTS; UNKNOWN PRIMARY;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASES; PHYSICAL THERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY; SURGERY; TOXICITY;

DISEASE CONTROL;

CAPECITABINE; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY ORIGIN; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NECK DISSECTION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053580247     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.01.014     Document Type: Article

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