When and How Should Adjuvant Radiation Be Used in Early Endometrial Cancer?

Seminars in Radiation Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 158-163

  Alektiar, Kaled M ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

early stage endometrial cancer; intravaginal radiation; radiation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; EARLY CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; LYMPH NODE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDITY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33745229351     PISSN: 10534296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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