High dose rate endobronchial brachytherapy effectively palliates symptoms due to inoperable lung cancer

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 443-448

  Celebioglu, Binnaz ^a,b   Gurkan, Ozlem Ural ^a   Erdogan, Sarper ^b   Savas, Ismail ^a   Köse, Kenan ^a   Kurtman, Cengiz ^a   Gonullu, Ugur ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Endobronchial brachytherapy; High dose rate; Inoperable lung cancer; palliation

Indexed keywords

IRIDIUM 192; IRIDIUM;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHUS OBSTRUCTION; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPTYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INOPERABLE CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRONCHUS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHI; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRIDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036832674     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyf102     Document Type: Article

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