Twenty-five-year experience with radical chemoradiation for anal cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 552-558

  Tomaszewski, Jonathan M ^a   Link, Emma ^a   Leong, Trevor ^a,b   Heriot, Alexander ^a,b   Vazquez, Melisa ^a   Chander, Sarat ^a   Chu, Julie ^a   Foo, Marcus ^a   Lee, Mark T ^a   Lynch, Craig A ^a   MacKay, John ^a,b   Michael, Michael ^a,b   Tran, Phillip ^a   Ngan, Samuel Y ^a,b  

^a PETER MACCALLUM CANCER CENTRE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anal cancer; Chemoradiation; Inguinal irradiation; Late toxicity; Patterns of failure

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; IRRADIATION; PATIENT MONITORING; TOXICITY;

ANAL CANCER; CHEMO RADIATIONS; COLOSTOMY-FREE SURVIVAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITIES; LATE TOXICITIES; PATTERNS OF FAILURE; RADICAL CHEMORADIATION; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

CHEMORADIOTHERAPY;

FLUOROURACIL; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; ANUS CANCER; BONE DISEASE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REVIEW; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT FAILURE; URETER OBSTRUCTION; UROSEPSIS; UTERUS CARCINOMA; VAGINA DISEASE;

EID: 84861096903     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.07.007     Document Type: Article

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