The need to revisit adjuvant and neoadjuvant radiotherapy in bladder cancer

Expert Review of Anticancer Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1527-1528

  Zaghloul, Mohamed Saad ^a  

^a CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLADDER CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CYSTECTOMY; LETTER; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RADIATION DOSE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77958030101     PISSN: 14737140     EISSN: 17448328     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/era.10.138     Document Type: Letter

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