Comparative study on prophylactic irradiation to the whole neck and to the upper neck for patients with neck lymph node-negative nasopharyngeal carcinoma

Head and Neck

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 687-693

  Zeng, Lei ^a,b   Sun, Xue Ming ^a,b   Chen, Chun Yan ^a,b   Han, Fei ^a,b   Huang, Ying ^a,b   Xiao, Wei Wei ^a,b   Liu, Shuai ^a,b   Tian, Yun Ming ^a,b   Deng, Xiao Wu ^a,b   Lu, Tai Xiang ^a,b  

^a State Key Laboratory for Cancer Research in Southern China   (China)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

elective irradiation; intensity modulated radiotherapy; nasopharyngeal carcinoma; neck lymph node negative; retropharyngeal lymph node

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; PACLITAXEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE SCINTISCANNING; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DISTANT METASTASIS; DISTANT METASTASIS FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK DISEASE; HUMAN; INDUCTION CHEMOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX CANCER; LIVER CANCER; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NECK FIBROSIS; NECK LYMPH NODE NEGATIVE NASOPHARYNGEAL CARCINOMA; NODAL RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLACTIC UPPER NECK IRRADIATION; PROPHYLACTIC WHOLE NECK IRRADIATION; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LYMPH NODE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NECK; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR INVASION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NECK; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898777719     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23359     Document Type: Article

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