The seventh edition of the UICC/AJCC staging system for nasopharyngeal carcinoma is prognostically useful for patients treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy from an endemic area in China

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 331-337

  Chen, Lei ^a   Mao, Yan Ping ^a   Xie, Fang Yun ^a   Liu, Li Zhi ^a   Sun, Ying ^a   Tian, Li ^a   Tang, Ling Long ^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

Intensity modulated radiotherapy; International Union against Cancer American Joint Committee on Cancer; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Prognosis; Tumor staging

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST CANCER AMERICAN JOINT COMMITTEE ON CANCER; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84867080820     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.10.009     Document Type: Article

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