Late symptoms in long-term gynaecological cancer survivors after radiation therapy: A population-based cohort study

British Journal of Cancer

Volumn 105, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 737-745

  Lind, H ^a   Waldenstrom A C ^b,c   Dunberger, G ^a   Al Abany, M ^a,d   Alevronta, E ^a   Johansson, K A ^e   Olsson, C ^b,e   Nyberg, T ^a   Wilderang U ^b   Steineck, G ^a,b   Vall Lundqvist, E ^a,d  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e SAHLGRENSKA ACADEMY AT UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

gynaecological cancer survivors; long term side effects; pelvic; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ERYSIPELAS; ESTROGEN THERAPY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; INTESTINE FUNCTION; LYMPHEDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICTURITION DISORDER; OVARY CANCER; PELVIS; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; SEXUALITY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE TUBE CARCINOMA; UTERUS SARCOMA; VAGINA CANCER; VULVA CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; ANAL CANAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY; REGISTRIES; SURVIVORS; URINARY TRACT;

EID: 80052489388     PISSN: 00070920     EISSN: 15321827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/bjc.2011.315     Document Type: Article

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