Radiation Therapy for Control of Soft-Tissue Sarcomas Resected With Positive Margins

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1460-1469

  DeLaney, Thomas F ^a   Kepka, Lucyna ^c   Goldberg, Saveli I ^a   Hornicek, Francis J ^a   Gebhardt, Mark C ^b   Yoon, Sam S ^a   Springfield, Dempsey S ^a   Raskin, Kevin A ^a   Harmon, David C ^a   Kirsch, David G ^a   Mankin, Henry J ^a   Rosenberg, Andrew E ^a   Nielsen, G Petur ^a   Suit, Herman D ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Positive margins; Radiotherapy; Soft tissue sarcoma

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; TUMORS;

MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSITIVE MARGINS (PM); PROGNOSTIC FACTORS; SOFT-TISSUE SARCOMA (STS);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM, RESIDUAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA;

EID: 33947512955     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.11.035     Document Type: Article

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