American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 176-180 , May 2009

Quality of life in head and neck cancer survivors: a cross-sectional survey

Meetings where data were presented: 12th International Conference on Quality of life, San Francisco, 2005.

  • Devendra A. Chaukar, MS, DNB

      Affiliations

    • Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Head Neck Services, Tata Memorial Hospital, Dr. Ernest Borges Marg, Parel, Mumbai 400 012, India. Tel.: +91 22 24172138; fax: +91 22 24158989.
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  • Rohan R. Walvekar, MS, DNB, DORL

      Affiliations

    • Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital
    • Department of Otolaryngology and Head Neck Surgery, University of Pittsburgh
    • ,
  • Ashok K. Das, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital
    • ,
  • Mandar S. Deshpande, MS, DNB

      Affiliations

    • Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital
    • ,
  • Prathamesh S. Pai, MS, DNB

      Affiliations

    • Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital
    • ,
  • Pankaj Chaturvedi, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital
    • ,
  • Anagha Kakade, MSC, DBM, PDCR

      Affiliations

    • Clinical Research Secretariat, Tata Memorial Hospital
    • ,
  • Anil K. D'Cruz, MS

      Affiliations

    • Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Tata Memorial Hospital

Received 6 February 2008

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PII: S0196-0709(08)00083-5

doi: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2008.05.001

American Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery
Volume 30, Issue 3 , Pages 176-180 , May 2009

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