Effect of serum selenium levels on radiotherapy-related toxicity in patients undergoing radiotherapy for head and neck cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3587-3590

  Eroglu, Celalettin ^a   Unal, Dilek ^b   Cetin, Aysun ^a   Orhan, Okan ^a   Sivgin, Serdar ^a   Oztürk, Ahmet ^a  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Kayseri Education and Research Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; RT related toxicity; Selenium

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; SELENIUM;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LARYNX CANCER; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; SERUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELENIUM;

EID: 84865689637     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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