Radiation dose to testes and risk of infertility from radiotherapy for rectal cancer

Oncology Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 729-732

  Mazonakis, Michalis ^a   Damilakis, John ^b   Varveris, Haris ^b   Gourtsoyiannis, Nicholas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IRAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Infertility; Radiotherapy; Rectal cancer; Testicular dose

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; METHODOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY; RECTUM TUMOR; RISK FACTOR; TESTIS;

HUMANS; INFERTILITY, MALE; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RISK FACTORS; TESTIS;

EID: 33645728294     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: 17912431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.15.3.729     Document Type: Article

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