The utility of serial complete blood count monitoring in patients receiving radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 317-321

  Blank, Kenneth R ^a   Cascardi, Michele A ^a   Kao, Gary D ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bone marrow toxicity; Complete blood counts; Radiotherapy toxicity

Indexed keywords

ANTIANDROGEN; GONADORELIN AGONIST; HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD CELL COUNT; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HEMOGLOBIN A; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 0032911483     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(99)00018-8     Document Type: Article

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