Cancer in children: Radiotherapeutic approaches

British Medical Bulletin

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 873-886

  Taylor, Roger E ^a  

^a Northern and Yorkshire Clinical Trials and Research Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; CYTARABINE; DACTINOMYCIN; METHOTREXATE;

ALOPECIA; BLADDER DISEASE; BONE MARROW SUPPRESSION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; ERYTHEMA; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORTHOPEDICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SKIN TOXICITY; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0030444836     PISSN: 00071420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a011588     Document Type: Review

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