Brachytherapy and pancreatic cancer

Seminars in Surgical Oncology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 204-207

  Bodner, William R ^a   Hilaris, Basil S ^a  

^a OUR LADY OF MERCY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

adjuvant chemotherapy; biological tumor markers; brachytherapy; neoplasm local recurrence; neoplasm metastasis; pancreatic neoplasms radiotherapy surgery; radiation dose response relationship; radioisotopes

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; GOLD 198; IODINE 125; IRIDIUM 192; PALLADIUM; RADIOISOTOPE; RADON 222;

ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; LAPAROTOMY; PANCREAS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 0030992067     PISSN: 87560437     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2388(199705/06)13:3<204::AID-SSU8>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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