Proposed lymph node staging system using the international consensus guidelines for lymph node levels is predictive for nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients from endemic areas treated with intensity modulated radiation therapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 249-256

  Li, Wen Fei ^a   Sun, Ying ^a   Mao, Yan Ping ^a   Chen, Lei ^a   Chen, Yuan Yuan ^a   Chen, Mo ^a   Liu, Li Zhi ^a   Lin, Ai Hua ^b   Li, Li ^a   Ma, Jun ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE STAGINGS; METHODS AND MATERIALS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA; PROGNOSTIC FACTORS; PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASES; RADIOTHERAPY;

BODY FLUIDS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER STAGING; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LOCAL RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; LYMPH NODE STAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR NECROSIS;

CARCINOMA; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHINA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NECK; NEOPLASM STAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 84877574818     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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