Does obesity hinder radiotherapy in endometrial cancer patients? The implementation of new techniques in adjuvant radiotherapy - Focus on obese patients

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Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 96-100

  Moszyńska Zielińska, Małgorzata ^a   Chaułbińska Fendler, Justyna ^b   Gottwald, Leszek ^a,b   Zytko, Leszek ^a   Bigos, Ewelina ^a   Fijuth, Jacek ^a,b  

^a Regional Oncological Centre   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Obesity; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY POSTURE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; OBESITY; ORGANS AT RISK; POLAND; RADIATION ONCOLOGIST; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 84901440996     PISSN: 16438876     EISSN: 22990038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/pm.2014.42710     Document Type: Article

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