| AJCC | American Joint Committee on Cancer |
| BMI | Body Mass Index |
| CI | Confidence Interval |
| CTCAE | Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events |
| EBRT | External Beam Radiotherapy |
| Gy | Gray |
| Hb | Hemoglobin |
| HNSCC | Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma |
| IMRT | Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy |
| OS | Overall Survival |
| PFS | Progression-Free Survival |
| RCT | Radiochemotherapy (combined radiotherapy and chemotherapy) |
| RTOG | Radiation Therapy Oncology Group |
| SD | Standard Deviation |
| SPSS | Statistical Package for the Social Sciences |
| TNM | Tumor, Node, Metastasis classification |
| WHO | World Health Organization |