Prospective multi-center trial utilizing electronic brachytherapy for the treatment of endometrial cancer

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Dickler, Adam ^a   Puthawala, Mohamed Y ^b   Thropay, John P ^c   Bhatnagar, Ajay ^d   Schreiber, Gary ^e  

^a Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center   (United States)

^b RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Beverly Oncology/Imaging Centers   (United States)

^d Cancer Treatment Services Arizona   (United States)

^e SWEDISH COVENANT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSURIA; ELECTRONIC BRACHYTHERAPY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGINA ATROPHY; VAGINA PAIN; VAGINAL DRYNESS; CANCER STAGING; ENDOMETRIUM TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING;

EID: 77954661649     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-67     Document Type: Article

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