Late Effects From Radiation Therapy: The Hits Just Keep on Coming

Journal of the National Cancer Institute

Volumn 101, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 904-905

  Longo, Dan L ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AORTA VALVE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL CARIES; DISEASE COURSE; DYSGEUSIA; EDITORIAL; EMBOLISM; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEART INFARCTION; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INCIDENCE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MEDIASTINUM; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MYELITIS; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NECK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RISK FACTOR; SECOND CANCER; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SMOKING; STROKE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; XEROSTOMIA; BLOOD VESSEL; ELASTICITY; NETHERLANDS; NOTE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

BLOOD VESSELS; ELASTICITY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; NETHERLANDS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STROKE;

EID: 67649653951     PISSN: 00278874     EISSN: 14602105     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djp164     Document Type: Editorial

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