Long-term results of 1-week intravaginal high-dose-rate brachytherapy alone for endometrial cancer

Brachytherapy

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 119-124

  Gaztañaga, Miren ^a   Cambeiro, Mauricio ^a   Villafranca, Elena ^b   Vila, Meritxell ^b   Jurado, Matías ^a   Moreno, Marta ^a   Martínez Monge, Rafael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra   (Spain)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Exclusive; High dose rate; Intravaginal brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER INVASION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISTANT METASTASIS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTRAVAGINAL BRACHYTHERAPY; LONG TERM CARE; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOMETRIUM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FEMALE UROGENITAL DISEASES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; VAGINA;

EID: 84857797316     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: 18731449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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