Exploring a link between fatigue and intestinal injury during pelvic radiotherapy

Oncologist

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1009-1015

  Jakobsson, Sofie ^a,b   Ahlberg, Karin ^a,b   Taft, Charles ^b   Ekman, Tor ^a,c  

^a SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c SAHLGRENSKA ACADEMY AT UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acute phase proteins; Cancer related fatigue; Citrulline; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; CITRULLINE; HAPTOGLOBIN; OROSOMUCOID;

ADULT; AGED; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANUS CANCER; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CANCER FATIGUE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; INTESTINE INJURY; PELVIC RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RADIOTHERAPY; RISK FACTOR; UTERUS CANCER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CITRULLINE; DIARRHEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINES; MIDDLE AGED; OROSOMUCOID; PELVIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77957809527     PISSN: 10837159     EISSN: 1549490X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1634/theoncologist.2010-0097     Document Type: Article

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