A novel low dose fractionation regimen for adjuvant vaginal brachytherapy in early stage endometrioid endometrial cancer

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 351-355

  Townamchai, Kanokpis ^a   Lee, Larissa ^a   Viswanathan, Akila N ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; High dose rate; Vaginal brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARCINOMATOSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; ENDOMETRIOID CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VAGINAL BRACHYTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84867400342     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2012.07.111     Document Type: Conference Paper

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