Long-term results of high-dose rate brachytherapy in cervix cancer using a small number of fractions

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 508-513

  Souhami, Luis ^a,b   Corns, Robert ^a   Duclos, Marie ^a   Portelance, Lorraine ^a   Bahoric, Boris ^a   Stanimir, Gerald ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

EID: 18144362480     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2005.02.015     Document Type: Article

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