Treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the uterine cervix with radiation therapy alone: Long-term survival, late complications, and incidence of second cancers

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 97, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1058-1062

  Ota, T ^a   Takeshima, N ^a   Tabata, T ^a   Hasumi, K ^a   Takizawa, K ^a  

^a CANCER INSTITUTE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical carcinoma; Late complication; Radiation; Second cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; SECOND CANCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL TIME; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 35348859537     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6604005     Document Type: Article

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