Review of radiation therapy in the pregnant cancer patient

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 591-601

  Martin, Douglas D ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

fetus; neoplasm; pregnancy; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN;

BRAIN METASTASIS; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOGENESIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; EMBRYO DEATH; EYE MALFORMATION; FEMALE FERTILITY; FETUS DEATH; GENITAL MALFORMATION; GLIOMA; HEAD AND NECK CARCINOMA; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE GROWTH RETARDATION; IONIZING RADIATION; LUNG CANCER; MELANOMA; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MICROCEPHALY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEUROSURGERY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; OVARY CANCER; PAPANICOLAOU TEST; PELVIC EXAMINATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PREIMPLANTATION EMBRYO; PRIMARY TUMOR; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION HAZARD; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOSURGERY; REVIEW; SARCOMA; SKELETON MALFORMATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; THYROID CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA CANCER; VULVA CANCER;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOMA; MELANOMA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, NEOPLASTIC; RADIATION, IONIZING;

EID: 80055066278     PISSN: 00099201     EISSN: 15325520     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GRF.0b013e318236e935     Document Type: Review

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