Retrospective study of palliative radiotherapy in newly diagnosed head and neck carcinoma

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 958-963

  Stevens, Christiaan M ^a   Huang, Shao Hui ^a   Fung, Sharon ^a   Bayley, Andrew J ^a   Cho, John B ^a   Cummings, Bernard J ^a   Dawson, Laura A ^a   Hope, Andrew J ^a   Kim, John J ^a   O'Sullivan, Brian ^a   Waldron, John N ^a   Ringash, Jolie ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; palliation; predictive factors; radiation dose; radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EASTERN COOPERATIVE ONCOLOGY GROUP; ELECTRONIC PATIENT RECORD; HAZARD RATIO; HEAD AND NECK; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; INDEPENDENT PREDICTORS; MEDIAN RADIATION; MEDIAN SURVIVAL; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIOS; OROPHARYNGEAL; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PALLIATION; PALLIATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PATTERNS OF CARE; PREDICTIVE FACTORS; PROGNOSTIC FACTORS; RADIATION DOSE; SALIVARY GLANDS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TREATMENT TIME;

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER OF UNKNOWN PRIMARY SITE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNX CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOUTH CARCINOMA; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARANASAL SINUS CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SALIVARY GLAND CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; UNDIFFERENTIATED CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80255135587     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.06.055     Document Type: Article

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