Local and regional recurrence of vulval cancer: Management dilemmas

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 663-681

  Coulter, John ^a   Gleeson, Noreen ^a  

^a Pathology Research Laboratory   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Chemoradiation; Palliative care; Recurrence; Survival; Vulval cancer

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CARBAMAZEPINE; CISPLATIN; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; DIAZEPAM; FLUOROURACIL; GABAPENTIN; HALOPERIDOL; KETAMINE; LOMUSTINE; LUBRICATING AGENT; METHADONE; METHOTREXATE; MIDAZOLAM; MITOMYCIN C; MORPHINE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; OXYCODONE; PLATINUM; SEDATIVE AGENT; STEROID; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; UNINDEXED DRUG;

ANEMIA; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ATROPHY; BLADDER METASTASIS; BLEEDING; BLOOD TOXICITY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CYSTITIS; DESQUAMATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIARRHEA; DYSKINESIA; DYSPAREUNIA; DYSPHORIA; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; EXCISION; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPHEDEMA; NAUSEA; NEURALGIA; PELVIC DISEASE; PELVIS EXENTERATION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROPERITONEAL DISEASE; REVIEW; SKIN FLAP; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT PLANNING; URETHRA DISEASE; URETHRITIS; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINA RECONSTRUCTION; VOMITING; VULVA CANCER; VULVOVAGINITIS;

EID: 0141718935     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1521-6934(03)00050-6     Document Type: Review

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