Long-term performance of interstial fluid pressure and hypoxia as prognostic factors in cervix cancer

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 132-137

  Fyles, Anthony ^a,b   Milosevic, Michael ^a,b   Pintilie, Melania ^a,b   Syed, Ami ^a,b   Levin, Wilf ^a,b   Manchul, Lee ^a,b   Hill, Richard P ^a,b  

^a Ontario Cancer Institute   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Cervix cancer; Hypoxia; Interstitial fluid pressure

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TISSUE PRESSURE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; CELL HYPOXIA; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MIDDLE AGED; OXYGEN; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33748150486     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2006.07.014     Document Type: Article

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