Effectiveness and Toxicities of Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy for Patients with Locally Recurrent Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Hai yan ^a   Ma, Xiu mei ^a   Ye, Ming ^a   Hou, Yan li ^a   Xie, Hua Ying ^a   Bai, Yong rui ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; PACLITAXEL;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN NECROSIS; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DISTANT METASTASIS; DYSPHAGIA; FEEDING DIFFICULTY; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDER; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NASOPHARYNGEAL MUCOSA NECROSIS; NASOPHARYNGEAL MUCOSA ULCER; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NECROSIS; NOSE INJURY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHARYNX DISEASE; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RECURRENT CANCER; RETREATMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TEMPORAL LOBE NECROSIS; TRISMUS; TUMOR INVASION; ULCER; XEROSTOMIA;

ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84883749168     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073918     Document Type: Article

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