High-dose-rate afterloading intraluminal brachytherapy for advanced inoperable rectal carcinoma

Brachytherapy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 66-70

  Corner, Carie ^a   Bryant, Linda ^a   Chapman, Caroline ^a   Glynne Jones, Rob ^a   Hoskin, Peter J ^a  

^a MOUNT VERNON CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

High dose rate; Intraluminal brachytherapy; Rectal cancer

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; FLUOROURACIL; OXALIPLATIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANUS CARCINOMA; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM FISTULA; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RECTUM STENOSIS; RECTUM ULCER; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 72449152132     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2009.07.004     Document Type: Article

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