Sexual functioning among endometrial cancer patients treated with adjuvant high-dose-rate intra-vaginal radiation therapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Damast, Shari ^a   Alektiar, Kaled M ^a   Goldfarb, Shari ^a   Eaton, Anne ^a   Patil, Sujata ^a   Mosenkis, Jeffrey ^b   Bennett, Antonia ^a   Atkinson, Thomas ^a   Jewell, Elizabeth ^a   Leitao, Mario ^a   Barakat, Richard ^a   Carter, Jeanne ^a   Basch, Ethan ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHYTHERAPY; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; CURRENT LEVELS; EFFECT SIZE; ENDOMETRIAL CANCER; HIGH DOSE RATE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE REGRESSION; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SHORT TIME INTERVALS; STANDARD DEVIATION; TIME INTERVAL; VALIDATION STUDY;

DISEASES; GYNECOLOGY; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SURVEYS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTRAVAGINAL RADIATION THERAPY; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; ORGASM; PAIN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIATION DOSE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SEXUAL SATISFACTION; VAGINAL DRYNESS;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVAGINAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEHYDRATION; DILATATION; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; LIBIDO; MIDDLE AGED; ORGASM; PAIN; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VAGINAL CREAMS, FOAMS, AND JELLIES; VAGINAL DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865656686     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2012.03.030     Document Type: Article

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