Postoperative radiation therapy improves prognosis in patients with adverse risk factors in localized, early-stage cervical cancer: A retrospective comparative study

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1112-1118

  Pieterse, Q D ^a   Trimbos, J B M Z ^a   Dijkman, A ^a   Creutzberg, C L ^a   Gaarenstroom, K N ^a   Peters, A A W ^a   Kenter, G G ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adjuvant radiation therapy; Cervical carcinoma; Risk factors; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CANCER INVASION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33745097403     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: 15251438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1438.2006.00600.x     Document Type: Article

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