Radiotherapy for Japanese elderly patients with cervical cancer: Preliminary survival outcomes and evaluation of treatment-related toxicity

Archives of Gynecology and Obstetrics

Volumn 284, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1007-1014

  Yoshida, Kenji ^a   Sasaki, Ryohei ^a   Nishimura, Hideki ^a   Miyawaki, Daisuke ^a   Kawabe, Tetsuya ^b   Okamoto, Yoshiaki ^c   Nakabayashi, Koji ^a   Yoshida, Shigeki ^a   Sugimura, Kazuro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Dokkyou Medical University   (Japan)

^c OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Elderly patients; Radiotherapy; Treatment related toxicity

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTITIS; DIARRHEA; ELDERLY CARE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL PAIN; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; INTESTINE INFECTION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; JAPANESE; LYMPHEDEMA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOSURGERY; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY EFFECT; URINARY FREQUENCY; URINARY TRACT OBSTRUCTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADENOCARCINOMA; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; JAPAN; MORTALITY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADENOCARCINOMA; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; JAPAN; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84855739508     PISSN: 09320067     EISSN: 14320711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00404-010-1777-6     Document Type: Article

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