Organ preservation in invasive bladder cancer: Brachytherapy, an alternative to cystectomy and combined modality treatment?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 678-686

  Pos, Floris ^a   Horenblas, Simon ^a   Dom, Paul ^a   Moonen, Luc ^a   Bartelink, Harry ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bladder cancer; Brachytherapy; Organ conservation

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; DISEASES; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TOXICITY;

BLADDER CANCERS; BRACHYTHERAPY; RADICAL CYSTECTOMY; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION (TUR);

TUMORS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; ORGAN PRESERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN FISTULA; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URETER STRICTURE; URETHRA STRICTURE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION OF PROSTATE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 13844253665     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.06.249     Document Type: Article

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