How intensive should radiotherapy for head and neck cancer with synchronous distant metastases be? Review of cases

Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 730-733

  Ampil, Federico L ^a   Kim, David D ^b   Ghali, Ghali E ^b   Baluna, Roxana G ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Louisiana State University School of Medicine Shreveport   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISTANT METASTASIS; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; GLOSSODYNIA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LARYNX CANCER; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NECK TUMOR; OROPHARYNX CANCER; REVIEW; SORE THROAT; SYNCOPE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; BRAIN TUMOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; EPISODE OF CARE; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84859931839     PISSN: 02782391     EISSN: 15315053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joms.2011.03.037     Document Type: Article

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