High-dose rate brachytherapy (HDRB) for primary or recurrent cancer in the vagina

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Beriwal, Sushil ^a   Heron, Dwight E ^a   Mogus, Robert ^a   Edwards, Robert P ^b   Kelley, Joseph L ^b   Sukumvanich, Paniti ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION RESPONSE; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VAGINA TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 41149160694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-3-7     Document Type: Article

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