Prognostic significance of thyroid or cricoid cartilage invasion in laryngeal or hypopharyngeal cancer treated with organ preserving strategies

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Wagner, Marcus M ^a   Curé, Joel K ^b   Caudell, Jimmy J ^a,d   Spencer, Sharon A ^a   Nabell, Lisle M ^c   Carroll, William R ^b   Bonner, James A ^a  

^a The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d H LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cartilage; Cricoid; Head and neck; Hypopharynx; Invasion; Larynx; Local failure; Radiotherapy; Thyroid

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; CRICOID; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; LARYNX SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN PRESERVATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THYROID GLAND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CRICOID CARTILAGE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID CARTILAGE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84871358746     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-7-219     Document Type: Article

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