Impact of pretreatment body mass index on patients with head-and-neck cancer treated with radiation

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Pai, Ping Ching ^a   Chuang, Chi Cheng ^a   Tseng, Chen Kan ^a   Tsang, Ngan Ming ^a,b   Chang, Kai Ping ^a   Yen, Tzu Chen ^a   Liao, Chun Ta ^a   Hong, Ji Hong ^a   Chang, Joseph Tung Chieh ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b School of Traditional Chinese Medicine   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Body weight loss; Head and neck cancer; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; DISTANT METASTASIS; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; LOCOREGIONAL CONTROL; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRE-TREATMENT;

ANTHROPOMETRY; DISEASES; HEALTH; PATIENT MONITORING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TAIWAN; THINNESS; WEIGHT LOSS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859817687     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.11.071     Document Type: Article

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