Radiation therapy for retroperitoneal sarcoma

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1251-1260

  Tzeng, Ching Wei D ^a   Fiveash, John B ^b   Heslin, Martin J ^b  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; IMRT; Intraoperative; Postoperative; Preoperative; Radiation therapy; Radiotherapy; Retroperitoneal sarcoma; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRON THERAPY; ENTEROPATHY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORBIDITY; NEPHRECTOMY; NEUROPATHY; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RETROPERITONEAL SARCOMA; REVIEW; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; URETER OBSTRUCTION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

CLINICAL TRIALS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROPERITONEAL NEOPLASMS; SARCOMA;

EID: 33748110808     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14737140.6.8.1251     Document Type: Review

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