Stage IB endometrial cancer: Does lymphadenectomy replace adjuvant radiotherapy?

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 183, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 600-604

  Bottke, Dirk ^a   Wiegel, Thomas ^a   Kreienberg, Rolf ^b   Kurzeder, Christian ^b   Sauer, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Early stage endometrial cancer; Local recurrence; Radiotherapy; Side effects; Survival

Indexed keywords

CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHADENECTOMY; PELVIC DISEASE; RELAPSE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THERAPY EFFECT; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS; AGE FACTORS; BRACHYTHERAPY; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPH NODES; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36249029133     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-007-1801-3     Document Type: Review

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