Advances in radiation oncology

Lancet

Volumn 349, Issue SUPPL.2, 1997, Pages

  Vijayakumar, Srinivasan ^a,b   Hellman, Samuel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SHORT SURVEY; TUMOR VOLUME;

EID: 0030919129     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(97)90010-6     Document Type: Article

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