Apoptotic activity in lymphocytes from radiation-treated cervical cancer patients

Journal of the Medical Association of Thailand

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 157-165

  Sueblinvong, Tada ^a   Pamutha, Pisut ^a  

^a CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Cervical Cancer; Lymphocyte Apoptotic Activity; Radiation Therapy for Cervical Cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD DONOR; BLOOD SAMPLING; CALCULATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CELL ASSAY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; RADIATION DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOLLOW UP; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REFERENCE VALUE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APOPTOSIS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0037315321     PISSN: 01252208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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