quality of life in head and neck cancer patients

... radiathion therapy in head and neck cancers: an update Head and Neck 2007, 29:387-400 Popovtzer A, Eisbruch A: Advances in radiation therapy of head and neck cancer Expert Rev Anticancer Ther 2008, ... 45 head and neck patients confirmed the findings of good dosimetric results and of toxicity, as well as the reliability and efficacy of the RapidArc modality as anticipated in dosimetric investigations ... was defined as the gross extent of tumour shown by imaging, including all involved (positive) lymph nodes MRI, and in few cases FDG-PET, were used in the delineation of GTV On the basis of the...

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... Advanced Head- and- Neck Cancer International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics 2009, 73:410-415 Cooper J, Fleming ID, editors, HD: Head and Neck Cancer AJCC Manual for Staging of Cancer ... http://www.ro-journal.com/content/6/1/1 Page of 25 Chao KSC, Gokhan O, Wade LT: Toxicity profile of intensity-modulated radiation therapy for head and neck carcinoma and potential role of amifostine Seminars in oncology 2003, ... weekly intervals, and weeks to months after completion of treatment Four to weeks after completion of IMRT, all patients were also seen regularly in our joint clinic at the Department of Head and Neck...

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... Urba S, Lin A, Schipper MJ, Wolf GT: Recurrences near base of skull after IMRT for head- and- neck cancer: implications for target delineation in high neck and for parotid gland sparing Int J Radiat ... Low DA: Patterns of failure in patients receiving definitive and postoperative IMRT for head- and- neck cancer Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2003, 55:312-321 Puri DR, Chou W, Lee N: Intensity-modulated ... for performing IMRT were parotid gland sparing (n ~100), and/ or mandible bone sparing (n = 76) and/ or anterior visual pathway and/ or brain sparing (n = 10) 34 patients (30 %, 30 following an R1...

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... research and clinical purpose in order to determine the global functional outcome of speech and voice after the treatment of head and neck cancer It allows quantifying the intelligibility also in severely ... extents of speech disorder (dysglossia) and voice disorder (dysphonia) after the treatment for head and neck cancer Speech Disorders in Patients with Oral Cancer Dysglossia often occurs in patients ... results in stable ASR conditions The quality of the recognition allows assessing the quality of the speech signal In order to exclude methodical interferences, a standard text and a stable recording...

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... approach in a set of 79 head and neck cancer patients We observed that RIA values increased with radiation Table Toxicity observed in 79 Head and Neck cancer patients dose (0, 1, and Gy) and fitted ... the intraindividual and interindividual variations were determined in the four healthy donors and in the 79 patients Intraindividual variation for healthy donors was always lower than interindividual ... patient and the tumour type The aim of the present study was to analyze radio-induced apoptosis of peripheral blood lymphocytes in head and neck cancer patients and explore their role in predicting...

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... in the UK and US and to a lesser extent in Canada 9.1 Decline of the welfare state Teeple [11] sees increasing income and wealth inequalities and the weakening of social infrastructures within ... general and in home care in particular A recent volume has provided snapshots of the effects of increasing privatisation of health and home care on the quality of life of women in each section of ... all indicators illuminate the state of political and economic forces that in uence the quality of life of women in Canada and elsewhere A number of indicators from the HDR [26] map onto this quality...

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... Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: A quality- of- life instrument for use in international clinical trials in oncology J National Cancer Institute, 85, 365-76 American Cancer Society Cancer ... assessment of quality of life of female cancer patients Gynecol Oncol, 85, 140-17 Greimel ER, Winter R, Kapp KS, Haas J (2009) Quality of life and sexual functioning after cervical cancer treatment: ... Social support and hopelessness in Turkish patients with cancer Cancer Nurs, 28, 236-40 Tannock I (2011) Determinants of quality of life in patients with advanced cancer Support Care Cancer, 19,...

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... validation of the German translation of the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale (GSRS) and Quality of Life in Reflux and Dyspepsia (QOLRAD) questionnaire in patients with reflux disease Health Qual Life ... I: Handling missing data in quality of life questionnaires: Experience from clinical trials 6th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research, Barcelona, Spain 1999 ... GSRS, Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale; QOLRAD, Quality of Life in Reflux and Dyspepsia questionnaire Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes...

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... 77:438-445 Quality of life and clinical trials Lancet 1995, 346:1-2 Acquadro C, Jambon B, Ellis D, Marquis P: Language and translation issues In Quality of Life and Pharmacoeconomics in Clinical ... Gill TM, Feinstein AR: A critical appraisal of the quality of quality- of- life measurements JAMA 1994, 272:619-626 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... Barofsky I: Cognitive aspects of quality of life assessment In Quality of Life and Pharmacoeconomics in Clinical Trials Volume 14 Second Edition edition Edited by: Spilker B Philadelphia, LippincottRaven;...

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... status and quality of life in adolescents: a latent variable mediation model Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:17 Helgeson VS: Social support and quality of life Quality of Life Research ... vacuum cleaners, washing machine, fridges, freezers; and level of education of the head of household A set of points is assigned to these indicators and a final score defines the socioeconomic ... work is structured in terms of hours of work, continuing education and flexibility to manage work and home demands [24] On the other hand, occupations with high strain and lack of support at work...

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... validation of the Italian translation of the gastrointestinal symptom-rating scale and quality of life in reflux and dyspepsia questionnaire in patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease Clin Drug ... I: [Psychometric validation of translation to Spanish of the gastrointestinal symptoms rating scale (GSRS) and quality of life in reflux and dyspepsia (QOLRAD) in patients with gastroesophageal ... Psychometric validation of the Dutch translation of the quality of life in reflux and dyspepsia (QOLRAD) questionnaire in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease Health and Quality of Life Outcomes...

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... Cummings B, Dawson L, Keller A, Kim J, Ringash J, Yu E, Hendler A, Waldron J: Intraobserver and interobserver variability in GTV delineation on FDG-PET-CT images of head and neck cancers Int ... Variability of gross tumor volume delineation in head- and- neck cancer using CT and PET/CT fusion Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2006, 65:726-732 Black QC, Grills IS, Kestin LL, Wong CY, Wong JW, Martinez ... areas might be useful in assigning dose intensification during IMRT Of course, the medical significance of including these additional data in the original treatment plan on final patient outcome...

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... in patients with head and neck cancer Head Neck 2000, 22:474-82 Stenson KM, MacCracken E, List M, Haraf DJ, Brockstein B, Weichselbaum R, Vokes EE: Swallowing function in patients with head and ... regarding chemotherapy regimens and participated in manuscript writing DGF and QL performed dysphagia data collection including TNE and FEES, and delineation of swallowing structures KN and JC ... for head and neck carcinoma Oncologist 2007, 12:565-8 Rosenthal DI, Lewin JS, Eisbruch A: Prevention and treatment of dysphagia and aspiration after chemoradiation for head and neck cancer J Clin...

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... Her-2, Her-3, and Her-4) These receptors are composed of an extra-cellular ligand-binding domain, a hydrophobic transmembrane segment, and an intracellular tyrosine kinase domain Binding to EGFR ... transducers in head and neck cancer (SCCHN) Anticancer Res 2005, 25:1871-1875 Raben D, Bianco C, Milas L, Ang KK: Targeted therapies and radiation for the treatment of head and neck cancer: are we making ... radioresistance of head and neck cancers Preclinical evidence suggests that EGFR has an important role in the proliferative response to ionizing radiation, counteracting the toxic effects of RT Mechanisms of...

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... completion of treatment Approximately weeks after completion of treatment all patients were also seen regularly in our joint clinics at the Department of Head and Neck Surgery or Head, Neck and Maxillofacial ... Boussin G, Daly N: Combined postoperative radiotherapy and weekly cisplatin infusion for locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: preliminary report of a randomized trial Int ... has been defined by contouring the anatomic region of the initial primary and nodal GTV, considering the preoperative diagnostics and the clinical and histological findings The PTV1 includes the...

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... generic and disease-specific HRQOL of children and adolescents in the reference population vs the overweight and obese patients They illustrate the information presented in Tables and Competing interests ... characteristics of the inpatient population, such as age, zBMI and gender However, even in the adjusted comparison, inpatients had a higher level of impairment in their physi- Wille et al Health and Quality ... characteristics of inpatients and outpatients may be different in other countries Conclusions Our study shows a considerably reduced HRQOL in overweight and obese pediatric clinical samples The pattern of...

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... lowered mental quality of life in young ED patients with minor trauma in comparison to a representative German population sample Physical quality of life in ED patients was even better than in the representative ... were incomplete Of the remaining 1,740 datasets, 144 were incomplete due to missing in the socioeconomic parameters Therefore, the final database consisted of 1,596 patients (89.7% of 1,779) Of ... defined as ≥ points (in men) and ≥ points [14] (in women) on the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) [15], "smoking" defined as all current smokers, and "use of illicit drugs" defined...

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... separately for patients who continued vs patients who discontinued GA In individual patients an increase in LMS-QoL score of or more points was classified as improvement, decrease of or more points as ... and quality of Life in Avonex-treated Relapsing multiple sclerosis patients (FLAIR) study group: Improvement of healthrelated quality of life in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis patients after ... relevant for individual MS patients In general, changes of 10% to 15% in clinical outcomes may be considered meaningful We choose a minimum of 15% of the mean baseline LMSQoL score in the total...

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... Westin T, Kaasa S: Quality of life in head and neck cancer patients: validation of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-H&N35 J Clin Oncol ... QLQ-H&N35) in head and neck patients EORTC Quality of Life Group Eur J Cancer 2000, 36:1796-1807 de Graeff A, de Leeuw JR, Ros WJ, Hordijk GJ, Blijham GH, Winnubst JA: Long-term quality of life of patients ... salivary output and xerostomia-related quality of life in head and neck cancer patients receiving parotid-sparing radiotherapy Oral Oncol 2001, 37:84-93 Braam PM, Roesink JM, Moerland MA, Raaijmakers...

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... Westin T, Kaasa S: Quality of life in head and neck cancer patients: validation of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-H&N35 J Clin Oncol ... Murdoch-Kinch C, Eisbruch A: Matched case-control study of quality of life and xerostomia after intensity-modulated radiotherapy or standard radiotherapy for head- and- neck cancer: initial report Int ... A prospective study of salivary function sparing in patients with head- and- neck cancers receiving intensitymodulated or three-dimensional radiation therapy: initial results Int J Radiat Oncol...

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