3-D conformal radiation therapy in upper gastrointestinal cancer: The University of Michigan experience

Frontiers of Radiation Therapy and Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue , 1996, Pages 221-228

  Lawrence, Theodore S ^a   Kessler, Marc L ^a   Robertson, John M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC ANTIMETABOLITE; BROXURIDINE; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT TUMOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; LIVER TUMOR; METASTASIS; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; REMISSION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MICHIGAN; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REMISSION INDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029693105     PISSN: 00719676     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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