Long term outcomes and prognostic factors of N0 stage nasopharyngeal carcinoma: A single institutional experience with 610 patients

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2101-2107

  Sun, Jian Da ^a   Chen, Chuang Zhen ^a   Chen, Jian Zhou ^a   Li, Dong Sheng ^a   Chen, Zhi Jian ^a   Zhou, Ming Zhen ^a   Li, De Rui ^a  

^a CANCER HOSPITAL OF SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

N0; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Outcome; Prognosis factors; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE TUMOR; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NASOPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872684019     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2012.13.5.2101     Document Type: Article

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