Why is female sex an independent predictor of shortened overall survival after proton/photon radiation therapy for skull base chordomas?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 225-230

  Halperin, Edward C ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHORDOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOTOCHORD; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON RADIATION; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKULL BASE TUMOR; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

CHORDOMA; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NOTOCHORD; PROGNOSIS; PROTONS; SEX FACTORS; SKULL BASE NEOPLASMS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030811672     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(97)00041-2     Document Type: Review

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