Treatment outcome following high dose rate brachytherapy and external beam radiation in localized prostate cancer - The Kiel experience;High-dose-rate brachytherapie und externe bestrahlung beim lokalisierten prostatakarzinom - Ergebnisse der Kieler Universitätsklinik

Praxis

Volumn 90, Issue 38, 2001, Pages 1617-1622

  Kovacs G ^a   Galalae, R ^a   Loch, T ^a   Rzehak, P ^a   Wilhelm, R ^a   Bertermann, H ^b   Nurnberg N ^a   Kohr, P ^a   Kimmig, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Prostata cancer

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; FOLLOW UP; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; MEGAVOLTAGE RADIOTHERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SURVIVAL RATE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0035922330     PISSN: 16618157     EISSN: 16618165     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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