Patients with low lying lymph nodes are at high risk for distant metastasis in oropharyngeal cancer

Oral Oncology

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 863-868

  Riaz, Nadeem ^a   Setton, Jeremy ^a   Tam, Moses ^a   Sherman, Eric ^a   Ho, Felix ^a   Katsoulakis, Evangelia ^b   Wong, Richard ^a   Wolden, Suzanne ^a   Rao, Shyam ^a   Lee, Nancy ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NEW YORK METHODIST HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Distant metastasis; Low lying lymph node; Lymph node staging; Oropharyngeal cancer; Recursive partition analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LOW RISK PATIENT; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PHARYNX CARCINOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SOFT PALATE; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TONSIL CARCINOMA; LYMPH NODE; METASTASIS; OROPHARYNX TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84905924888     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: 18790593     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2014.06.008     Document Type: Article

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