External beam radiation therapy and interstitial brachytherapy in the treatment of anal canal carcinomas: A series of 70 patients;Association radiothérapie externe et curiethérapie dans le traitement du cancer du canal anal: Une série de 70 patients

Bulletin du Cancer

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1107-1110

  Dubois, Jean Bernard ^a   Azria, David ^a   Ychou, Marc ^a  

^a CENTRE VAL D AURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Carcinoma of the anal canal; External radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ANUS CARCINOMA; ANUS SPHINCTER; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANUS NEOPLASMS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIATION INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0742320295     PISSN: 00074551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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