High dose rate afterloading intraluminal brachytherapy for advanced inoperable rectal carcinoma

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 195-198

  Hoskin, Peter J ^a   De Canha, Sandra M ^a   Bownes, Peter ^a   Bryant, Linda ^a   Jones, Rob Glynne ^a  

^a MOUNT VERNON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Diarrhoea; Metastatic disease

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM CARCINOMA; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7944220434     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2004.06.004     Document Type: Article

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