High-dose rate brachytherapy in the treatment of carcinoma of uterine cervix: Twenty-year experience with cobalt after-loading system

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1101-1105

  Mosalaei, A ^a,b   Mohammadianpanah, M ^a   Omidvari, S ^a   Ahmadloo, N ^a  

^a SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b SHIRAZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cervix; Cobalt; High dose rate brachytherapy; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

COBALT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PELVIS; PERITONEUM METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT PLANNING; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA; COBALT RADIOISOTOPES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33745064497     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2006.00554.x     Document Type: Article

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