Tumor volume is an independent prognostic indicator of local control in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients treated with intensity-modulated radiotherapy

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Feng, Mei ^a   Wang, Weidong ^a   Fan, Zixuan ^a   Fu, Binyu ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Zhang, Shichuan ^a   Lang, Jinyi ^a  

^a SICHUAN CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Primary nodal volume; Primary tumor volume; Prognostic factor

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE; PACLITAXEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DISTANT METASTASIS; DISTANT METASTASIS FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT PLANNING; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883451225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-8-208     Document Type: Article

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