The management of inoperable Stage I endometrial cancer using intracavitary brachytherapy alone: A 20-year institutional review

Brachytherapy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 278-283

  Shenfield, Carey B ^a   Pearcey, Robert G ^a   Ghosh, Sunita ^a   Dundas, George S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early stage; Endometrial cancer; Heyman's capsules; Inoperable; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EARLY CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRACAVITARY BRACHYTHERAPY; LOW RADATION DOSE RATE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67651071522     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2008.11.006     Document Type: Review

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