Pelvic Radiotherapy Plus - References/links

Pelvic Radiotherapy Plus - For women living with the after effects of pelvic radiotherapy

References

Food Standard Agency, UKh headquarters, Aviation House, 125

Kingsway WC2B 6NH.

2. Penny Brohn Cancer Centre, www.pennybrohncancercare.org.

Last checked 6/7/08.

3. St Mark's hospital patient information leaflets.

http://www.stmarkshospital.org.uk. Last checked 6/7/08.

4. Radiation enteritis,

http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cancernet/304093.html.

Last checked 6/7/08.

5. Cancer Research UK, long term effects of pelvic radiotherapy,

www.cancerresearch.org.uk. Last checked 6/7/08.

6. Dr.Linus biography, Oregon State University,

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/lpbio/lpbio2.htm. Last checked

6/7/08.

7. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy. American cancer website. available

at http://tinyurl.com/56765d. Last checked 6/7/08. last

checked 20/7/08

LINKS

Vitamins and health supplement guide

http://www.vitamins-supplements.org/vitamin-E.php.

British Acupuncture Council.

http: www.acupuncture.org.uk.

The irreversibility of radiation induced fibrosis: fact or folkore?

http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/full/23/34/8551.

Proctitis.

http://www.umm.edu/altmed/articles/proctitis-000134.htm.

Fibre restriction for bowel Restriction.

http://www.ovacome.org.uk/Ovariancancer/Livingwithcancer/

FibreRestrictionforBowelRestriction.

Probiotics.

http://nccam.nih.gov/health/probiotics/.

Delanian S, Lefaix JL.

Current management for late normal tissue injury: radiation-induced fibrosis and necrosis.

Semin Radiat Oncol. 2007 Apr;17(2):99-107. Review.

PMID: 17395040 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]2:

Delanian S, Lefaix JL.

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The radiation-induced fibroatrophic process: therapeutic perspective via the antioxidant pathway.

Radiother Oncol. 2004 Nov;73(2):119-31. Review.

PMID: 15542158 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Letur-Konirsch H, Delanian S.

Successful pregnancies after combined pentoxifylline-tocopherol treatment in women with premature ovarian failure who are resistant to hormone replacement therapy.

Fertil Steril. 2003 Feb;79(2):439-41.

PMID: 12568863 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]5:

Letur-Könirsch H, Guis F, Delanian S.

Uterine restoration by radiation sequelae regression with combined pentoxifylline-tocopherol: a phase II study.

Fertil Steril. 2002 Jun;77(6):1219-26.

PMID: 12057732 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Andreyev J.

Related Articles, Cited in PMC, LinkOut Gastrointestinal complications of pelvic radiotherapy: are they of any importance?

Gut. 2005 Aug;54(8):1051-4.

PMID: 16009675 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]2:

McGough C, Baldwin C, Frost G, Andreyev HJ.

Related Articles, LinkOut Role of nutritional intervention in patients treated with radiotherapy for pelvic malignancy.

Br J Cancer. 2004 Jun 14;90(12):2278-87. Review.

PMID: 15162154 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]3:

Gami B, Harrington K, Blake P, Dearnaley D, Tait D, Davies J, Norman AR, Andreyev HJ.

Related Articles, Cited in PMC, LinkOut How patients manage gastrointestinal symptoms after pelvic radiotherapy.

Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2003 Nov 15;18(10):987-94.

PMID: 14616164 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]4:

Konishi T, Watanabe T, Nagawa H.

Related Articles, LinkOut Treatment of local ischaemia: another promising approach for gastrointestinal complications of pelvic radiotherapy.

Gut. 2006 Aug;55(8):1209. No abstract available.

PMID: 16849354 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]5:

Andreyev J.

Related Articles, LinkOut Gastrointestinal symptoms after pelvic radiotherapy: a new understanding to improve management of symptomatic patients.

Lancet Oncol. 2007 Nov;8(11):1007-17. Review.

PMID: 17976611 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]6:

Andreyev HJ.

Related Articles, LinkOut Gastrointestinal problems after pelvic radiotherapy: the past, the present and the future.

Clin Oncol (R Coll Radiol). 2007 Dec;19(10):790-9. Epub 2007 Sep 27. Review.

PMID: 17904338 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]7:

Gillespie C, Goode C, Hackett C, Andreyev HJ.

Related Articles, LinkOut The clinical needs of patients with chronic gastrointestinal symptoms after pelvic radiotherapy.

Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 2007 Aug 15;26(4):555-63.

PMID: 17661759 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Contacts

In Contact, A UK charity for people with bowel and bladder disfunction. www.incontact.org.

Telephone nurse helplines 0845 3450165

RAGE, Radiotherapy Action Group Exposure.

e mail jan@rage.org.uk.

Tel-01892 557804

Personal experience of health and illness,

Dipex.org.

Macmilan support@advse. contact about any matters.

http//www.macmilan.org.uk.

Supporting women with gynaecological cancer

www.communigate.co.uk/wilts/gynaec

Lymphoedema.org.

http://www.Lymphoedema.org/