A systematic overview of radiation therapy effects in soft tissue sarcomas

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 42, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 516-531

  Strander, Hans ^a   Turesson, Ingela ^b   Cavallin Ståhl, Eva ^c  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTOLOGY; SURGERY; TUMORS;

CONTROL RATE;

RADIOTHERAPY;

RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT;

BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; BREAST CARCINOMA; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LIMB DISEASE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MICROSCOPY; NEUTRON; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RANDOMIZATION; RETROPERITONEAL SARCOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWEDEN; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRUNK; UTERUS CARCINOMA; WOUND;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0141636526     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860310014732     Document Type: Review

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