Factors predictive of rectal bleeding after 103Pd and supplemental beam radiation for prostate cancer

Brachytherapy

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 130-135

  Sherertz, Tracy ^a   Wallner, Kent ^a,b,c   Merrick, Gregory ^d   Ford, Eric ^a,b   Sutlief, Steven ^a,b   Cavanagh, William ^a   Butler, Wayne ^d   True, Lawrence ^e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^d WHEELING HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Complications; Prostatic carcinoma; Rectal

Indexed keywords

LEAD;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RISK; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE CALCULATION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; SEMINAL VESICLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; PALLADIUM; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOISOTOPES; RECTAL DISEASES;

EID: 8144228582     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2004.05.005     Document Type: Article

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