Use of brachytherapy in children with cancer: The search for an uncomplicated cure

Lancet Oncology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 157-166

  Martinez Monge, Rafael ^a   Cambeiro, Mauricio ^a   San Julián, Mikel ^b   Sierrasesúmaga, Luis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIUM 252; CESIUM 137; GOLD 198; IODINE 125; IRIDIUM 192; PHOSPHORUS 32; RADIOISOTOPE; YTTRIUM 90;

BLEEDING DISORDER; BLINDNESS; BONE NECROSIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRAIN STEM INJURY; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER CENTER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CATARACT; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; COLORECTAL DISEASE; CRANIAL NERVE INJURY; CRANIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DIABETES INSIPIDUS; DOSIMETRY; DRUG FATALITY; DYSPHAGIA; EWING SARCOMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FIBROSIS; GLAUCOMA; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINE INFARCTION; LIVER VENOOCCLUSIVE DISEASE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MYOSARCOMA; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETINA MACULOPATHY; RETINOBLASTOMA; RETINOPATHY; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; SPEECH DISORDER; TELANGIECTASIA; TISSUE NECROSIS; TOOTH DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRISMUS; TUMOR VOLUME; URETER OBSTRUCTION; URETHRA DISEASE; URETHRA STENOSIS; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 31544465949     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(06)70578-2     Document Type: Review

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