Palliative treatment by high-dose-rate intraluminal brachytherapy in patients with advanced esophageal cancer

Brachytherapy

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 87-94

  Skowronek, Janusz ^a   Piotrowski, Tomasz ^a   Zwierzchowski, Grzegorz ^a  

^a Great Poland Cancer Centre   (Poland)

Author keywords

Esophageal cancer; HDR brachytherapy; Palliative treatment; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGOBRONCHIAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; REMISSION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHIAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIATION DOSAGE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 4544235327     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2004.05.003     Document Type: Article

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