Vaginal vault brachytherapy as sole postoperative treatment for low-risk endometrial cancer

Brachytherapy

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 195-199

  Chong, Irene ^a   Hoskin, Peter J ^a  

^a MOUNT VERNON CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Endometrial cancer; Postoperative; Radiotherapy; Vaginal vault

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METASTASIS; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RELAPSE; STENOSIS; VAGINA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA;

EID: 41749113288     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2008.01.001     Document Type: Article

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