Administration of concurrent vaginal brachytherapy during chemotherapy for treatment of endometrial cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 665-669

  Nagar, Himanshu ^a   Boothe, Dustin ^a   Parikh, Amar ^a   Yondorf, Menachem ^a   Parashar, Bhupesh ^a   Gupta, Divya ^a   Holcomb, Kevin ^a   Caputo, Thomas ^a   Chao, K S Clifford ^a   Nori, Dattatreyudu ^a   Wernicke, A Gabriella ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; AMERICAN JOINT COMMITTEE ON CANCERS; CONCURRENT CHEMOTHERAPY; GENITOURINARY TOXICITIES; METHODS AND MATERIALS; OVERALL TREATMENT TIME; POSTOPERATIVE RADIATION THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASES; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; RADIOTHERAPY;

TOXICITY;

CARBOPLATIN; COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; PACLITAXEL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD TOXICITY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; ENDOMETRIUM SARCOMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TOXICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROGENITAL TRACT TOXICITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BONE MARROW; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARBOPLATIN; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; GENITALIA; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANS AT RISK; PACLITAXEL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 84886065102     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2013.08.014     Document Type: Article

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