Radiation alone for carcinoma of the vagina: Variation in response related to the location of the primary tumor

Cancer

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 1934-1939

  Ali, Moinuddin M ^a   Huang, David T ^a   Goplerud, Dean R ^a   Howells, Robert ^a   Lu, Jian Dong ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

external beam therapy; implants; proximal and distal radiation doses; treatment outcome; vaginal carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; UNITED STATES; VAGINA CARCINOMA;

EID: 0029917338     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19960501)77:9<1934::aid-cncr25>3.0.co;2-#     Document Type: Article

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