Effectiveness of prophylactic retropharyngeal lymph node irradiation in patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer

BMC Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Nguyen, Nam P ^a   Vock, Jacqueline ^b   Vinh Hung, Vincent ^c   Almeida, Fabio ^h   Ewell, Lars ^a   Betz, Michael ^c   Jang, Siyoung ^a   Vo, Richard A ^d   Dutta, Suresh ^e   Godinez, Juan ^f   Karlsson, Ulf ^g   Chi, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^d University of Galveston Medical School   (United States)

^e San Antonio State Hospital   (United States)

^f Florida Radiation Oncology Group   (United States)

^g MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

^h Southwest PET/CT Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; IGRT; IMRT; Retropharyngeal lymph nodes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN METASTASIS; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECURRENCE; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE;

EID: 84862244440     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-253     Document Type: Article

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