Optimizing radiation therapy and post-treatment function in the management of extremity soft tissue sarcoma

Current Treatment Options in Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 463-476

  DeLaney, Thomas F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; GRANULOCYTE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR; IFOSFAMIDE; MESNA;

BEAM THERAPY; BLOOD TOXICITY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; LIMB; LIMB SALVAGE; MORBIDITY; MYELODYSPLASIA; PHOTOTHERAPY; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENCE RISK; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

EID: 9944264999     PISSN: 15272729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11864-004-0035-1     Document Type: Review

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