Prediction of neck dissection requirement after definitive radiotherapy for head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Thariat, Juliette ^a,b   Ang, K Kian ^a   Allen, Pamela K ^a   Ahamad, Anesa ^a,c   Williams, Michelle D ^a   Myers, Jeffrey N ^a   El Naggar, Adel K ^a   Ginsberg, Lawrence E ^a   Rosenthal, David I ^a   Glisson, Bonnie S ^a   Morrison, William H ^a   Weber, Randal S ^a   Garden, Adam S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b CENTRE ANTOINE LACASSAGNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Neck dissection; Neck nodes; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL TREATMENT; COMPLETE RESPONSE; CONTROL RATES; DEFINITIVE RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; HEAD-AND-NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HIGHER T; HYPOPHARYNX; KAPLAN-MEIER METHOD; NECK DISSECTION; NECK NODES; OROPHARYNX; PARTIAL RESPONSE; PLANNED NECK DISSECTION; PROGNOSTIC FACTORS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARD MODELS; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL CURVES; TUMOR SITE;

DISEASES; TUMORS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; HYPOPHARYNX SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNX SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NECK DISSECTION; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; OROPHARYNX SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863393786     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.03.062     Document Type: Article

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