Radiotherapy capacity in European countries: An analysis of the Directory of Radiotherapy Centres (DIRAC) database

The Lancet Oncology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Rosenblatt, Eduardo ^a   Izewska, Joanna ^a   Anacak, Yavuz ^a   Pynda, Yaroslav ^a   Scalliet, Pierre ^b   Boniol, Mathieu ^c   Autier, Philippe ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c INTERNATIONAL PREVENTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; DATA BASE; DOSIMETRY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EUROPE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EQUIPMENT; REVIEW; SLOVENIA; UNITED KINGDOM;

BRACHYTHERAPY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EUROPE; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 84873078300     PISSN: 14702045     EISSN: 14745488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1470-2045(12)70556-9     Document Type: Review

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