Intestinal Malabsorption in Long-Term Survivors of Cervical Cancer Treated With Radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1141-1147

  Vistad, Ingvild ^a,b   Kristensen, Gunnar B ^b   Fosså, Sophie D ^b,c   Dahl, Alv A ^b   Mørkrid, Lars ^d  

^a Sørlandet Hospital Health Enterprise   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Cobalamin deficiency; Long term survivors; Malabsorption; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ACIDS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ALLOYS; HOSPITAL DATA PROCESSING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RADIOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

BLOOD TESTS; CERVICAL CANCER; COBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HOMOCYSTEINE; INTESTINAL ABSORPTIONS; LONG-TERM SURVIVORS; MALABSORPTION; MEDIAN VALUES; METHYLMALONIC ACIDS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NORMATIVE DATUM; PATIENT DATUM; PELVIC RADIOTHERAPIES; RENAL FUNCTIONS; ROUTINE MONITORING; VITAMIN B; WILCOXON TESTS;

VITAMINS;

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; HOMOCYSTEINE; METHYLMALONIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVOR; ERYTHROCYTE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALABSORPTION; MALE; METHYLMALONIC ACIDEMIA; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANK SUM TEST; SURVIVAL TIME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIARRHEA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVORS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 61349161076     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.05.064     Document Type: Article

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