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SUBMITTER: Jiang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6219576 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Jiang Li L Huang Chenhui C Gan Yixiu Y Wu Tong T Tang Xiaobi X Wang Yiru Y Wang Rensheng R Zhang Yong Y
Scientific reports 20181106 1
Dysphagia is a side effect of nasopharyngeal carcinoma chemo-radiotherapy (CRT) which greatly influences the quality of life of the patients. We analyzed late dysphagia in 134 patients with nasopharyngeal cancer undergoing radical radiotherapy (RT), and correlated these findings with dose-volume histogram (DVH) parameters of the swallowing organs at risk (SWOARs). DVH parameters of SWOARs were correlated with late dysphagia, and with RTOG/EORTC scale score and the M. D. Anderson dysphagia invent ...[more]