Evaluation of effect of body mass index and weight loss on survival of patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma treated with intensity-modulated radiation therapy

BACKGROUND: Previous studies report body-mass index (BMI) and percent weight loss (WL) to have prognostic significance when treating patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). However, most of these investigations studied patients treated using different radiotherapeutic techniques. We evaluated...

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Autores principales: Lin, Yu-Hsuan, Chang, Kuo-Ping, Lin, Yaoh-Shiang, Chang, Ting-Shou
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4486696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26122711
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-015-0443-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4486696/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26122711
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13014-015-0443-3

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