Hypofractionated adjuvant radiation therapy of soft-tissue sarcoma achieves excellent results in elderly patients

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 86, Issue 1028, 2013, Pages

  Soyfer, V ^a   Corn, B W ^a   Kollender, Y ^a   Issakov, J ^a   Dadia, S ^a   Flusser, G ^a   Bickels, J ^a   Meller, I ^a   Merimsky, O ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DISTANT METASTASIS; DISTANT METASTASIS FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HUMAN; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RADIATION DERMATITIS; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN ATROPHY; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TELANGIECTASIA; ADJUVANT THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84880890295     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr.20130258     Document Type: Article

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