What a surgeon needs to know about radiation

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 516-522

  Eisbruch, Avraham ^a,b   Lichter, Allen S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Radiation

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASM; ONCOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0031225278     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02303679     Document Type: Review

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