Radiation therapy is an important factor to improve survival in pediatric patients with head and neck rhabdomyosarcoma by enhancing local control: a historical cohort study from a single center

• Published in: BMC pediatrics Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 265 - 10
• Main Authors: Wen, Yuan, Huang, Dongsheng, Zhang, Weiling, Zhang, Yi, Hu, Huimin, Li, Jing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 29.05.2020; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Biopsy; Chemotherapy; Child; Child health; Cohort analysis; Cohort Studies; Disease-Free Survival; Head and neck; Humans; Magnetic resonance imaging; Medical prognosis; Metastasis; Neck; Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; Oncology; Pediatric; Pediatrics; Prognosis; Proportional Hazards Models; Radiation (Physics); Radiation therapy; Radiotherapy; Retrospective Studies; Rhabdomyosarcoma; Rhabdomyosarcoma - radiotherapy; Risk factors; Sarcoma; Surgery; Surveillance; Tumor size; Vincristine; Head and neck; Prognosis; Radiation therapy; Pediatric; Tumor size; Rhabdomyosarcoma

The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence of radiation therapy on survival in a historical cohort of 56 pediatric patients with head and neck rhabdomyosarcoma. A historical cohort of 56 pediatric patients with head and neck rhabdomyosarcoma from June 1st, 2013 to June 30th, 2019 was chos...