Did the Addition of Concomitant Chemotherapy to Radiotherapy Improve Outcomes in Hypopharyngeal Cancer? A Population-Based Study
Author(s) -
Stephen F. Hall,
Rebecca Griffiths
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
current oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.053
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1718-7729
pISSN - 1198-0052
DOI - 10.3747/co.23.3085
Subject(s) - medicine , radiation therapy , head and neck cancer , hypopharyngeal cancer , concomitant , incidence (geometry) , population , head and neck , oncology , cancer , retrospective cohort study , cohort , surgery , environmental health , physics , optics
For oncologists and for patients, no site-specific clinical trial evidence has emerged for the use of concurrent chemotherapy with radiotherapy (ccrt) over radiotherapy (rt) alone for cancer of the hypopharynx (hpc) or for other human papilloma virus-negative head-and-neck cancers.
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