Treatment outcome and prognostic variables for local control and survival in patients receiving radical radiotherapy for urinary bladder cancer

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 749-757

  Fokdal, Lars ^a   Høyer, Morten ^a   Von Der Maase, Hans ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION INJURY; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 11244331835     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841860410018629     Document Type: Article

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