Impact on treatment outcome and late effects of customized treatment planning in cervix carcinomas: Baseline results to compare new strategies

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 189-200

  Barillot, Isabelle ^a   Horiot, Jean Claude ^a   Maingon, Philippe ^a   Truc, Gilles ^a   Chaplain, Gilles ^a   Comte, Jacques ^a   Brenier, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a Ctr Lutte Contre Le Cancer G F L   (France)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Cervical carcinoma; Late effects; Outcome; Radiotherapy; Treatment planning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER INJURY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION INJURY; RECTUM INJURY; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRACHYTHERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0034255957     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00556-3     Document Type: Article

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