Twenty-year review of radiotherapy for vaginal cancer: An institutional experience

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 111, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 298-306

  Lian, Jidong ^a   Dundas, George ^a   Carlone, Marco ^a   Ghosh, Sunita ^a   Pearcey, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy (BT); Prognostic factors; Radiotherapy; Vaginal cancer

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 55649115505     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2008.07.007     Document Type: Article

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