Late rectal toxicity after conformal radiotherapy of prostate cancer (I): Multivariate analysis and dose-response

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 103-113

  Skwarchuk, Mark W ^a   Jackson, Andrew ^a   Zelefsky, Michael J ^a   Venkatraman, Ennapadam S ^a   Cowen, Didier M ^b   Levegrün, Sabine ^a,c   Burman, Chandra M ^a   Fuks, Zvi ^a   Leibel, Steven A ^a   Ling, C Clifton ^a  

^a Mem Sloan Kettering Cancer C ^*  (United States)

^b INSTITUT PAOLI CALMETTES   (France)

^c GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Late; Prostate; Radiation; Rectum; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTAL DISEASES; RECTUM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0034176902     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(99)00560-X     Document Type: Article

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