A single institutional experience with definitive radiotherapy for cervical cancer using both high- and low-dose-rate brachytherapy

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 500-507

  Gerszten, Kristina ^a   Gooding, William E ^a   Lin, Yan ^a   Heron, Dwight E ^a   Faul, Clare ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Carcinoma cervix; High dose rate brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TOXICITY; TUMOR VOLUME; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33748513439     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2006.01.021     Document Type: Article

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