Monthly palliative pelvic radiotherapy in advanced carcinoma of uterine cervix

Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 208-212

  Mishra, Sanjib K ^a   Laskar, Siddhartha ^a   Muckaden, Mary Ann ^a   Mohindra, Pranshu ^a   Shrivastava, Shyam K ^a   Dinshaw, Ketayun A ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Carcinoma; Cervix; Palliative; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 31344474588     PISSN: 09731482     EISSN: 09731482     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.19588     Document Type: Article

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