Accelerated hyperfractionated radiotherapy for locally advanced cervix cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 519-524

  MacLeod, Craig ^a   Bernshaw, David ^b   Leung, Sam ^b   Narayan, Kalaish ^b   Firth, Ian ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Accelerate; Cervix; Hyperfractionate

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BLADDER DISEASE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIS SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; SKIN TOXICITY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033066373     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(99)00043-7     Document Type: Article

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