Recent advances in radiotherapy for soft-tissue sarcoma

Current Oncology Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 274-281

  O'Sullivan, Brian ^a   Ward, Iain ^a   Catton, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; DOXORUBICIN; IFOSFAMIDE;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; DESQUAMATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLICATION; RETROPERITONEAL SARCOMA; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION RESPONSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETROPERITONEAL TUMOR; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE TUMOR; SURVIVAL;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037996362     PISSN: 15233790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11912-003-0066-y     Document Type: Review

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