Chronic rectal bleeding after high-dose conformal treatment of prostate cancer warrants modification of existing morbidity scales

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 59-63

  Hanlon, Alexandra L ^a   Schultheiss, Timothy E ^a   Hunt, Margie A ^a   Movsas, Benjamin ^a   Peter, Ruth S ^a   Hanks, Gerald E ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chronic rectal bleeding; Conformal treatment; LENT; Morbidity scales; Prostate cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLOSTOMY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SIGMOIDECTOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTUM;

EID: 0031128392     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(97)00234-4     Document Type: Article

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