High-dose-rate brachytherapy in combination with stenting offers a rapid and statistically significant improvement in quality of life for patients with endobronchial recurrence

Cancer Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 368-373

  Allison, Ron ^a,b   Sibata, Claudio ^a,b   Sarma, Kalika ^a,b   Childs, Carter J H ^a,b   Downie, Gordon H ^a,b  

^a Brody School of Medicine ^*

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Bronchoscopy; HDR; Lung cancer; Stents

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; NITINOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHOSCOPE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS BIOPSY; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; STENT; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

AGED; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; STENTS;

EID: 15744394147     PISSN: 15289117     EISSN: 1540336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00130404-200411000-00006     Document Type: Article

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