High-dose-rate brachytherapy at 14 Gy per hour to point A: Preliminary results of a prospectively designed schedule for cancer of the cervix based on the linear-quadratic model

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 445-453

  Leborgne, F ^a,c   Leborgne, J H ^a   Zubizarreta, E ^a   Fowler, J F ^b   Maisonneuve, J ^a   Ferrari, D ^a   Curochquin, R ^a  

^a Pereira Rossell Hospital   (Uruguay)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NONE   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Cancer of the cervix; Complications; High dose rate

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BLADDER DISEASE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CESIUM RADIOISOTOPES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035667465     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1438.2001.01058.x     Document Type: Article

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