Gastrointestinal symptoms after pelvic radiotherapy: Role for the gastroenterologist?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1464-1471

  Andreyev, H Jervoise N ^a,b,d   Vlavianos, Panagiotis ^b   Blake, Peter ^c   Dearnaley, David ^c   Norman, Andrew R ^c   Tait, Diana ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL MARSDEN HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; GI symptoms; Pelvic radiotherapy; Radiation colitis; Radiation enteritis; Radiation proctitis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BIOPSY; DISEASE CONTROL; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GYNECOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; UROLOGY;

GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOMS; PELVIC RADIOTHERAPY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL TRACT TUMOR; GASTROENTEROLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; GASTROINTESTINAL TUMOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS CANCER; PERIODICITY; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; RECORDING; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RELIABILITY; SIGMOIDOSCOPY; STANDARD; STEATORRHEA; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT CANCER; URINARY URGENCY; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANUS NEOPLASMS; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 22144471839     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.12.087     Document Type: Article

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