Excellent functional outcome in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the base of tongue treated with external irradiation and interstitial iodine 125 boost

Cancer

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 948-957

  Horwitz, Eric M ^a   Frazier, Arthur J ^a   Martinez, Alvaro A ^a   Keidan, Richard D ^a   Clarke, Daniel H ^b   Lacerna, Mario D ^a   Gustafson, Gary S ^a   Heil, Edward ^a   Dmuchowski, Carl F ^a   Vicini, Frank A ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Northern Virginia Cancer Center   (United States)

Author keywords

base of tongue cancer; brachytherapy; iodine 125; quality of life; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

IODINE 125;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; SPEECH; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SWALLOWING; TONGUE CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOMATITIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TRACHEOSTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 9444236766     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960901)78:5<948::AID-CNCR3>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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