The treatment results of 40 patients with localized endobronchial cancer with external beam irradiation and intraluminal irradiation using low dose rate 192Ir thin wires with a new catheter

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 189-195

  Fuwa, Nobukazu ^a   Ito, Yoshiyuki ^a   Matsumoto, Akira ^a   Morita, Kozo ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Curative potential treatment; External beam irradiation; Intraluminal irradiation; Iridium thin wire; Lung cancer

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BIOPSY; BLEEDING; BRONCHUS STENOSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RECURRENT CANCER; SURVIVAL TIME; TECHNIQUE; TRACHEA CANCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER; ULCEROGENESIS; X RAY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, BRONCHOGENIC; CATHETERIZATION; DOSE FRACTIONATION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034254711     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(00)00217-6     Document Type: Article

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