Clinical outcomes among patients with head and neck cancer treated by intensity-modulated radiotherapy with and without adaptive replanning

Head and Neck

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 1541-1546

  Chen, Allen M ^a   Daly, Megan E ^a   Cui, Jing ^a   Mathai, Mathew ^a   Benedict, Stanley ^a   Purdy, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive radiotherapy; head and neck cancer; image guidance; intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT); outcomes

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; MOUTHWASH; SKIN CREAM;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; DESQUAMATION; DISTANT METASTASIS FREE SURVIVAL; DYSPHAGIA; ERYTHEMA; ESOPHAGITIS; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; STOMACH TUBE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; XEROSTOMIA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EVALUATION STUDY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION RESPONSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84931271939     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23477     Document Type: Article

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