Impact of intensity-modulated radiation therapy on local control in primary soft-tissue sarcoma of the extremity

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2008, Pages 3440-3444

  Alektiar, Kaled M ^a   Brennan, Murray F ^a   Healey, John H ^a   Singer, Samuel ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE RESECTION; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; JOINT STIFFNESS; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NEUROLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TUMOR VOLUME; WOUND INFECTION; ADJUVANT THERAPY; BONE TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIMB; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RADIATION INJURY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOMA; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NEOPLASMS; COHORT STUDIES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROBABILITY; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RISK ASSESSMENT; SARCOMA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49149102194     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2008.16.6249     Document Type: Article

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