Do Bladder Cancer Patients with Metastatic Spinal Cord Compression Benefit from Radiotherapy Alone?

Urology

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1081-1085

  Rades, Dirk ^a,b   Walz, Jochen ^b   Schild, Steven E ^c   Veninga, Theo ^d   Dunst, Juergen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^d DR BERNARD VERBEETEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GENDER; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; MALE; MOBILIZATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD METASTASIS; SPINE METASTASIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD COMPRESSION; SPINAL CORD NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34249986674     PISSN: 00904295     EISSN: 15279995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2007.02.045     Document Type: Article

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