Hyperbaric oxygenation for tumour sensitisation to radiotherapy

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2012, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Bennett, Michael H ^a   Feldmeier, John ^b   Smee, Robert ^a   Milross, Christopher ^c  

^a PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

^c ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAROTRAUMA; BLADDER CANCER; BRONCHUS CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GLIOBLASTOMA; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; LUNG BAROTRAUMA; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; METASTASIS; MIDDLE EAR DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEUROTOXICITY; OXYGEN TOXICITY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOSENSITIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RECTUM CANCER; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SEIZURE; SELECTION BIAS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TISSUE INJURY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VISUAL DISORDER; BLADDER TUMOR; BRONCHUS TUMOR; ESOPHAGUS TUMOR; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MALE; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NEOPLASM; RECTUM TUMOR; TIME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

BRONCHIAL NEOPLASMS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MALE; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASMS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84864045980     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD005007.pub3     Document Type: Review

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