Interstitial brachytherapy for salvage treatment of vaginal recurrences in previously unirradiated endometrial cancer patients

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1153-1159

  Nag, Subir ^a   Yacoub, Sherif ^a   Copeland, Larry J ^a   Fowler, Jeffery M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Endometrial cancer; Interstitial; Radiotherapy; Vaginal recurrence

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; IRRADIATION; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

SURVIVAL RATES;

ONCOLOGY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYSTOCOLIC FISTULA; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; IRRADIATION; MORBIDITY; PERINEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; SALVAGE THERAPY; TUMOR; ULCER; VAGINA; VAGINA DISEASE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SALVAGE THERAPY; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037111414     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(02)03019-5     Document Type: Article

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