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Vaginal Cancer

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Radiation therapy (RT) is the treatment of choice of most patients with vaginal cancer. Select early-stage patients with small volume disease limited to the upper vagina, however, can be treated with either a partial or radical vaginectomy.

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  1. Department of Radiation Medicine and Applied Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA

    Arno J. Mundt M.D., Catheryn Yashar M.D. & Loren K. Mell M.D.

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    Nancy Y. Lee

  2. NUHS Tower Block, Level 7, Department of Radiation Oncology, National University Cancer Institute, 1E Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119228, Singapur, Singapore

    Jiade J. Lu

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Mundt, A.J., Yashar, C., Mell, L.K. (2013). Vaginal Cancer. In: Lee, N., Lu, J. (eds) Target Volume Delineation and Field Setup. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28860-9_22

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