Profiles and Time Course of Acute Radiation Toxicity Symptoms during Conformal Radiotherapy for Cancer of the Prostate

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 741-748

  Hovdenak, Nils ^a   Karlsdottir, Ása ^a   Sørbye, Halfdan ^a   Dahl, Olav ^a  

^a HAUKELAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPSY; DRUG DOSAGE; ENDOSCOPY; ONCOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; TOXICITY;

MUCOSAL BIOPSY; PATHOGENESIS;

TUMORS;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACCURACY; ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BLOATING; CALCULATION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPY; FECES INCONTINENCE; HEMATOCHEZIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOOSE FECES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAUSEA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION INJURY; RECORDING; RECTOSCOPY; RECTUM BIOPSY; RECTUM MUCOSA; REGISTRATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SYMPTOM; TENESMUS; TIME; TOXICITY; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; FECAL INCONTINENCE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM;

EID: 0345449003     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860310011302     Document Type: Article

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