High-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy with or without external beam radiotherapy in the treatment of primary vaginal carcinoma: Long-term results and side effects

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 950-957

  Mock, Ulrike ^a   Kucera, Herwig ^a   Fellner, Claudia ^a   Knocke, Thomas Hendrik ^a   Pötter, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

HDR brachytherapy; Radiotherapy; Vagina; Vaginal carcinoma

Indexed keywords

DISEASE CONTROL; FREQUENCIES; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

BRACHYTHERAPY;

TUMORS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BLADDER DISEASE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COBALT TELETHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION SICKNESS; RECTUM DISEASE; SURVIVAL RATE; TOXICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA CARCINOMA; VAGINA DISEASE;

EID: 0038386617     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(03)00217-7     Document Type: Article

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