Treatment of vaginal recurrences in endometrial carcinoma by high-dose-rate brachytherapy

Anticancer Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 241-248

  Sorbe, Bengt ^a   Söderström, Karin ^b  

^a ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Endometrial carcinoma; Radiotherapy; Vaginal recurrence

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER TOXICITY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INFILTRATION; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISTANT METASTASIS; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; LYMPH VESSEL METASTASIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; TOXICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR DIFFERENTIATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VAGINAL RECURRENCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIATION DOSAGE; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84873051102     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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