Determination of prognostic factors for vaginal mucosal toxicity associated with intravaginal high-dose rate brachytherapy in patients with endometrial cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 667-673

  Bahng, Agnes Y ^a   Dagan, Avner ^a   Bruner, Deborah W ^a   Lin, Lilie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial carcinoma; Intravaginal brachytherapy; Quality of life; Vaginal dilators; Vaginal toxicity

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT TREATMENT; ADVERSE EVENTS; CLINICAL PREDICTORS; ENDOMETRIAL CANCER; ENDOMETRIAL CARCINOMAS; HIGH-DOSE-RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; INTRAVAGINAL BRACHYTHERAPY; LYMPH NODE; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIOS; PENNSYLVANIA; PROGNOSTIC FACTORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; VAGINAL DILATORS;

DISEASES; GYNECOLOGY; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY;

TOXICITY;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; VAGINAL MUCOSAL TOXICITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COITUS; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DILATATION; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MIDDLE AGED; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; ODDS RATIO; OVARIECTOMY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VAGINA;

EID: 84855833076     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.10.071     Document Type: Article

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