Descriptive nomograms of adjuvant radiotherapy use and patterns of care analysis for stage I and II endometrial adenocarcinoma: A surveillance, epidemiology, and end results population study

Cancer

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2092-2100

  Lee, Christopher M ^a,c   Szabo, Aniko ^b   Shrieve, Dennis C ^a   Macdonald, O Kenneth ^a   Tward, Jonathan D ^a   Skidmore, Thomas B ^a   Gaffney, David K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Cancer Care Northwest ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Adjuvant treatment; Endometrial cancer; Patterns of care analysis; Radiation; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; EARLY CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NOMOGRAMS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEER PROGRAM;

EID: 35648955686     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: 10970142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cncr.22997     Document Type: Article

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