The Dose-Volume Relationship of Small Bowel Irradiation and Acute Grade 3 Diarrhea During Chemoradiotherapy for Rectal Cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 413-418

  Robertson, John M ^a   Lockman, David ^a   Yan, Di ^a   Wallace, Michelle ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Diarrhea; Dose volume histogram; Rectal cancer; Small bowel

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; DRUG DOSAGE; HISTOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TUMORS;

RECTAL CANCER; SMALL BOWEL;

MEDICAL PROBLEMS;

ANTIDIARRHEAL AGENT; CAPECITABINE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID; IRINOTECAN;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM RESECTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; PELVIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 38149089570     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.06.066     Document Type: Article

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