Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for anal cancer: Toxicity versus Outcomes

ONCOLOGY

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Zagar, Timothy M ^a   Willett, Christopher G ^a   Czito, Brian G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C;

ANUS CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CYSTITIS; DERMATITIS; DIARRHEA; DYSURIA; FEMUR FRACTURE; FIBROSIS; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; PAIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION ENTEROPATHY; REVIEW; SECOND CANCER; SKIN TOXICITY; TREATMENT FAILURE; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINAL DRYNESS;

EID: 77958023965     PISSN: 08909091     EISSN: 08909091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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