The effect of anemia on the radiotherapy results of the uterine cervix cancer.
Relationship between hemoglobin level and survival and/or recurrence rate was studied in radiation treated group of postmenopausal women with uterine cervix carcinoma. The data suggest that anemia alters unfavorably the effectiveness of radiotherapy. A possible explanation of the lowered control rate is that due to deficiency of tissue oxygenation by reduced oxygen carriage proportion of hypoxic cells increases and impairs the radiosensitivity.
D000368:Aged; D000740:Anemia / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality / Q000532:radiotherapy*