Palliative re-irradiation for in-field recurrence after definitive radiotherapy in patients with primary lung cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1 B, 2007, Pages 531-534

  Ebara, Takeshi ^a,b,c   Tanio, Noriko ^a   Etoh, Takashi ^a   Shichi, Izumi ^a   Honda, Atsuro ^a   Nakajima, Nobuaki ^a  

^a SHIZUOKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Lung cancer; Palliative re irrradiation; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TOXICITY; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847756356     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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