Background. The improvement in locoregional control of head and neck carcinomas over the last decades does not appear to modify the final survival of these patients, mainly due to the appearance of distant metastases and second neoplasms. We ran a study to evaluate the incidence of second neoplasms
Second malignant neoplasms in patients successfully treated with multimodality treatment for advanced head and neck cancer
β Scribed by Vikram, Bhadrasain ;Strong, Elliot W. ;Shah, Jatin P. ;Spiro, Ronald
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1984
- Weight
- 263 KB
- Volume
- 6
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-6403
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