Perioperative interstitial brachytherapy for soft tissue sarcomas: Prognostic factors and long-term results of 155 patients

Annals of Surgical Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 560-567

  Laskar, Siddhartha ^a   Bahl, Gaurav ^a   Puri, Ajay ^a   Agarwal, Manish G ^a   Muckaden, Maryann ^a   Patil, Nikhilesh ^a   Jambhekar, Nirmala ^a   Gupta, Sudeep ^a   Deshpande, Deepak D ^a   Shrivastava, Shyam K ^a   Dinshaw, Ketayun A ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Interstitial brachytherapy; Radiotherapy; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SPINDLE CELL CARCINOMA; SYNOVIAL SARCOMA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846637806     PISSN: 10689265     EISSN: 15344681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1245/s10434-006-9137-2     Document Type: Article

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