The course of health-related quality of life in head and neck cancer patients treated with chemoradiation: A prospective cohort study

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 422-428

  Verdonck De Leeuw, Irma M ^a   Buffart, Laurien M ^a   Heymans, Martijn W ^a   Rietveld, Derek H ^a   Doornaert, Patricia ^a   De Bree, Remco ^a   Buter, Jan ^a   Aaronson, Neil K ^b   Slotman, Ben J ^a   Leemans, C René ^a   Langendijk, Johannes A ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chemoradiation; Head and neck cancer; Quality of life; Radiotherapy; Survival

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EATING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CARCINOMA; MOUTH PAIN; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STATUS; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDER; SWALLOWING; TREATMENT DURATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVOR; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84899520233     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2014.01.002     Document Type: Article

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