Quantitative analysis of normal tissue effects in the clinic (QUANTEC) guideline validation using quality of life questionnaire datasets for parotid gland constraints to avoid causing xerostomia during head-and-neck radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 352-358

  Lee, Tsair Fwu ^a   Fang, Fu Min ^b  

^a NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Head and neck; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; NTCP; Quality of life; QUANTEC; Squamous cell carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF NORMAL TISSUE EFFECTS IN THE CLINIC; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PAROTID GLAND; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 84876152749     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2012.11.013     Document Type: Article

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