How patients manage gastrointestinal symptoms after pelvic radiotherapy

Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 987-994

  Gami, B ^a   Harrington, K ^b   Blake, P ^b   Dearnaley, D ^b   Tait, D ^b   Davies, J ^b   Norman, A R ^b   Andreyev, H J N ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE CRAMP; NAUSEA; PELVIS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION INDUCED EMESIS; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; URINARY TRACT CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 0344394524     PISSN: 02692813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2036.2003.01760.x     Document Type: Article

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