Development of NTCP models for head and neck cancer patients treated with three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy for xerostomia and sticky saliva: The role of dosimetric and clinical factors

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 86-93

  Beetz, Ivo ^a   Schilstra, Cornelis ^a   Burlage, Fred R ^a   Koken, Phil W ^b   Doornaert, Patricia ^b   Bijl, Henk P ^a   Chouvalova, Olga ^a   Leemans, C René ^b   De Bock, Geertruida H ^a   Christianen, Miranda E M C ^a   Van Der Laan, Bernard F A M ^a   Vissink, Arjan ^a   Steenbakkers, Roel J H M ^a   Langendijk, Johannes A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Nomograms; Normal tissue complication probability models; Radiotherapy; Xerostomia

Indexed keywords

CETUXIMAB;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHEEK; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; EORTC QLQ H AND N35; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LIP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINOR SALIVA GLAND; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION MODEL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAROTID GLAND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; SALIVARY GLAND; SALIVATION DISORDER; SOFT PALATE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STICKY SALIVA; SUBLINGUAL GLAND; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; XEROSTOMIA;

AGED; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALIVA; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 84868340958     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.05.010     Document Type: Article

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