Salvage treatment with high-dose-rate brachytherapy for isolated vaginal endometrial cancer recurrence

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 445-449

  Petignat, Patrick ^a   Jolicoeur, Marjory ^b   Alobaid, Abdulaziz ^a   Drouin, Pierre ^a   Gauthier, Philippe ^a   Provencher, Diane ^a   Donath, David ^b   Van Nguyen, Thu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CHUM Notre Dame ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; High dose rate brachytherapy; Recurrence; Survival

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; METASTASIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENCE RISK; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VAGINA CANCER; VAGINA DISEASE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33646553566     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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