External validation of three dimensional conformal radiotherapy based NTCP models for patient-rated xerostomia and sticky saliva among patients treated with intensity modulated radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 105, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 94-100

  Beetz, Ivo ^a   Schilstra, Cornelis ^a   Van Luijk, Peter ^a   Christianen, Miranda E M C ^a   Doornaert, Patricia ^b   Bijl, Henk P ^a   Chouvalova, Olga ^a   Van Den Heuvel, Edwin R ^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

External validation; Head and neck cancer; NTCP models; Xerostomia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CANCER PATIENT; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHI SQUARE TEST; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUTH CANCER; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PAROTID GLAND; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SALIVA; SUBLINGUAL GLAND; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION PROCESS; XEROSTOMIA;

AGED; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; SALIVA; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 84868356684     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.11.006     Document Type: Article

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