Radiation therapy and the geriatric oncology patient

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 1930-1935

  Horiot, Jean Claude ^a  

^a Centre de Lutte Contre le Cancer GF Leclerc   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; HORMONE; SEROTONIN 3 ANTAGONIST; TEMOZOLOMIDE;

AGING; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGISTRY; COMORBIDITY; DEHYDRATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RADIATION RESPONSE; RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE;

EID: 34249794845     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.10.5312     Document Type: Review

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