Intensity-modulated radiation therapy after hysterectomy: Comparison with conventional treatment and sensitivity of the normal-tissue-sparing effect to margin size

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1117-1124

  Ahamad, Anesa ^a   D'Souza, Warren ^a   Salehpour, Mohammad ^a   Iyer, Revathy ^a   Tucker, Susan L ^a   Jhingran, Anuja ^a   Eifel, Patricia J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; Female pelvis; IMRT; Radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; IRRADIATION; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; TISSUE;

BODY MASS INDEX; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUME (CTV); HYSTERECTOMY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (IMRT);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRADIATION; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SMALL INTESTINE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INTESTINE, SMALL; MOVEMENT; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTUM; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 21244439018     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2004.12.029     Document Type: Article

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