Results of radiotherapy for 230 patients with stage I-II seminomas

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 186-192

  Hultenschmidt B ^a,d   Budach, V ^b   Genters, K ^c   Sack, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c Klinik Heidberg   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; IFOSFAMIDE; VINBLASTINE SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; SEMINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORCHIECTOMY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REMISSION INDUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEMINOMA; TESTICULAR NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029919091     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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