Nasopharyngeal carcinoma in children and adolescents - a single institution experience of 158 patients

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Weixin ^a   Tang, Yuan ^a   Gao, Li ^a   Huang, Xiaodong ^a   Luo, Jingwei ^a   Zhang, Shiping ^a   Wang, Kai ^a   Qu, Yuan ^a   Xiao, Jianping ^a   Xu, Guozhen ^a   Yi, Junlin ^a  

^a CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Childhood; Nasopharyngeal carcinoma; Prognosis; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BONE NECROSIS; BRAIN DISEASE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; DISTANT METASTASIS FREE SURVIVAL; EPISTAXIS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEADACHE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NASOPHARYNX CARCINOMA; NECK TUMOR; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RADIATION INJURY; RADIATION SAFETY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRISMUS; XEROSTOMIA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIOTHERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; RADIOTHERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84924128329     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13014-014-0274-7     Document Type: Article

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