What is the role of radiotherapy in bladder-preserving cancer therapy?

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 4-5

  Rödel, Claus ^a   Sauer, Rolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; GEMCITABINE; TAXANE DERIVATIVE;

ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTRACTURE; CYSTECTOMY; HUMAN; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURGICAL APPROACH; URODYNAMICS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CYSTECTOMY; HUMANS; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; QUALITY OF LIFE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 20444506096     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc0052     Document Type: Review

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