Prediction of local failures with a combination of pretreatment tumor volume and apparent diffusion coefficient in patients treated with definitive radiotherapy for hypopharyngeal or oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma

J Radiat Res. 2011;52(4):522-30. doi: 10.1269/jrr.10178.

Authors

Kayoko Ohnishi¹, Yoshiyuki Shioyama, Masamitsu Hatakenaka, Katsumasa Nakamura, Koichiro Abe, Takashi Yoshiura, Saiji Ohga, Takeshi Nonoshita, Tadamasa Yoshitake, Torahiko Nakashima, Hiroshi Honda

Affiliation

¹ Department of Clinical Radiology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka city, Japan.

PMID: 21905311
DOI: 10.1269/jrr.10178

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / pathology
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / radiotherapy*
Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods
Female
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 / pharmacology
Follow-Up Studies
Hemoglobins / metabolism
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Multivariate Analysis
Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / pathology
Oropharyngeal Neoplasms / radiotherapy*
Positron-Emission Tomography / methods
Proportional Hazards Models
Radiotherapy / methods
Recurrence
Retrospective Studies
Treatment Outcome

Substances

Hemoglobins
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18