Radiation therapy in the elderly;Radiothérapie et sujet âgé

Bulletin du Cancer

Volumn 95, Issue SUPPL. 8, 2008, Pages

  Durdux, Catherine ^a   Bauer, Carole ^a  

^a HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

Author keywords

Age; Cancer; Elderly patients; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; COMORBIDITY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MALE; NEOPLASMS; PELVIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 45849151688     PISSN: 00074551     EISSN: 17696917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1684/bdc.2007.0535     Document Type: Review

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