Long-term cervical cancer survivors suffer from pelvic floor symptoms: A cross-sectional matched cohort study

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 281-286

  Hazewinkel, M H ^a   Sprangers, M A G ^a   van der Velden, J ^a   van der Vaart, C H ^b   Stalpers, L J A ^a   Burger, M P M ^a   Roovers, J P W R ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Pelvic floor symptoms; Pelvic radiotherapy; Radical hysterectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVOR; CONSTIPATION; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE; PELVIS LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADICAL HYSTERECTOMY; URINE INCONTINENCE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CONSTIPATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FECAL INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIC FLOOR; URINARY INCONTINENCE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77950187757     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2010.01.034     Document Type: Article

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