A comparison between the sixth and seventh editions of the UICC/AJCC staging system for nasopharyngeal

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2014, Pages

  Li, Jing ^a,b   Zou, Xiong ^a   Wu, Yun Long ^a   Guo, Jing Cui ^a   Yun, Jing Ping ^a   Xu, Miao ^a   Feng, Qi Sheng ^a   Chen, Li Zhen ^a   Bei, Jin Xin ^a   Zeng, Yi Xin ^a   Chen, Ming Yuan ^a  

^a SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHINESE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FEMALE; FIBERSCOPE ENDOSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS FREE SURVIVAL; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TUMOR ABLATION; TUMOR BIOPSY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHINA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NASOPHARYNX; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NASOPHARYNX; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84919632634     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0116261     Document Type: Article

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