High dose rate vaginal brachytherapy in early stage endometrial carcinoma: Preliminary analysis

American Journal of Clinical Oncology: Cancer Clinical Trials

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 254-258

  Hong, Jack J ^a,b   Yacoub, Sherif F ^a   Blevins, Judith C ^a   Kuban, Deborah A ^a   El Mahdi, Anas M ^a  

^a EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Endometrial carcinoma; High dose rate

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSE; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OVARIECTOMY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; VAGINA;

EID: 0030941341     PISSN: 02773732     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000421-199706000-00009     Document Type: Article

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