External Beam Radiotherapy and High Dose Rate Brachytherapy for Medically Unfit and Elderly Patients

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 706-710

  Marijnen, C A M ^a  

^a ANTONI VAN LEEUWENHOEK HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; contact X rays; local recurrence; radiotherapy; rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUOROURACIL;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TOXICITY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOSTOMY; DIARRHEA; ELDERLY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FECES INCONTINENCE; FIBROSIS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM SURGERY; RECTUM ULCER; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK REDUCTION; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; STENOSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; X IRRADIATION;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 34748836925     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2007.07.015     Document Type: Article

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