Pretreatment Lifestyle Behaviors as Survival Predictors for Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
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Pretreatment Lifestyle Behaviors as Survival Predictors for Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma
BACKGROUND Lifestyle behaviors have been widely reported to influence the survival of patients with head and neck cancer. However, the relationship between pretreatment lifestyle behaviors and survival among patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is unclear. METHODS A prospective cohort study was designed to determine the relationship between lifestyle behaviors and survival in 1,533 NP...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036515