High-dose-rate endobronchial brachytherapy effectively palliates symptoms due to airway tumors: The 10-year M. D. Anderson Cancer Center experience

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 697-702

  Kelly, Jason F ^a   Delclos, Marc E ^a   Morice, Roldolfo C ^a   Huaringa, Armando ^a   Allen, Pamela K ^a   Komaki, Ritsuko ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Endobronchial radiation; High dose rate; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS TUMOR; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034307214     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(00)00693-3     Document Type: Article

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