Age is not a limiting factor for brachytherapy for carcinoma of the node negative oral tongue in patients aged eighty or older

BACKGROUND: To examine the role of brachytherapy for aged patients 80 or more in the trend of rapidly increasing number. METHODS: We examined the outcomes for elderly patients with node negative oral tongue cancer (T1-3N0M0) treated with brachytherapy. The 21 patients (2 T1, 14 T2, and 5 T3 cases) r...

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Autores principales: Yamazaki, Hideya, Yoshida, Ken, Kotsuma, Tadayuki, Yoshioka, Yasuo, Koizumi, Masahiko, Furukawa, Souhei, Kakimoto, Naoya, Shimizutani, Kimishige, Nishimura, Tsunehiko
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21143904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-5-116

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3016284/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21143904
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-5-116

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