Clinical efficacy of applying four-field portals to paraaortic irradiation in the treatment of cervical carcinoma

Radiation Oncology Investigations

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 170-177

  Kodaira, Takeshi ^a,d   Karasawa, Katsuyuki ^a   Shimizu, Teppei ^a   Tanaka, Yoshiaki ^b   Matsuda, Tadayoshi ^c   Murakami, Akira ^a   Mizutani, Katsumi ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN KOMAGOME HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Tama South Regional Hospital   (Japan)

^d AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cervical carcinoma; Four field portals; Gastrointestinal complication; Paraaortic irradiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PARAAORTIC LYMPH NODE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION TOLERANCE; RADIOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033030258     PISSN: 10657541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6823(1999)7:3<170::AID-ROI6>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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