Perioperative high-dose-rate brachytherapy in locally advanced and recurrent gynecologic cancer: Initial results of a phase II trial

Brachytherapy

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 203-210

  Martínez Monge, Rafael ^a   Jurado, Matías ^a   Cambeiro, Mauricio ^a   Valero, Jeanette ^a   Villafranca, Elena ^b   Alcázar, Juan L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Colorectal cancer; External beam radiation therapy; Gynecologic cancer; High dose rate; Perioperative; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSIMETRY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; METASTASIS; PELVIS SURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT CANCER; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750975067     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2006.07.001     Document Type: Article

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