Promising treatment outcomes of intensity-modulated radiation therapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients with N0 disease according to the seventh edition of the AJCC staging system

BMC Cancer

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sun, Ying ^a   Tang, Ling Long ^a   Chen, Lei ^a   Li, Wen Fei ^a   Mao, Yan Ping ^a   Liu, Li Zhi ^a   Lin, Ai Hua ^b   Li, Li ^a   Ma, Jun ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; DISTANT METASTASIS FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LOCAL RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROPHARYNX LYMPH NODE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; SURVIVAL; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862791007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-12-68     Document Type: Article

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