Predictors of severe acute and late toxicities in patients with localized head-and-neck cancer treated with radiation therapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1454-1462

  Meyer, Franois ^a   Fortin, André ^b   Wang, Chang Shu ^b   Liu, Geoffrey ^c   Bairati, Isabelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute toxicity; Head and neck cancer; Late toxicity; Predictors; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADVERSE EFFECT; BODY MASS INDEX; CLINICAL SETTINGS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; INDEPENDENT PREDICTORS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS; ODDS RATIOS; PERFORMANCE STATUS; PREDICTORS; RADIATION MORBIDITY; RADIATION THERAPY ONCOLOGY GROUPS; RANDOMIZED TRIAL; SCORING SCHEMES; TNM STAGE; VITAMIN-E; WEIGHT LOSS;

DISEASES; DOSIMETRY; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; LOGISTICS; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

TOXICITY;

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; BETA CAROTENE; BODY MASS INDEX; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUEBEC; RADIATION INJURIES; SEX FACTORS; VITAMIN E; VITAMINS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84857910045     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.04.022     Document Type: Article

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