500 kHz hyperthermia assisted HDR brachytherapy in the treatment of recurrent cervical and endometrial cancer in previously irradiated fields

Reports of Practical Oncology and Radiotherapy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 131-134

  Piotrkowicz, Norbert ^a   Zieliński, Jan ^a   Jońska, Joanna ^a   Dȩbicki, Piotr ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^b Department of Fisheries Oceanography and Marine Ecology   (Poland)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Cervical cancer; Endometrial cancer; Secondary radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; LUNG METASTASIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RECURRENT CANCER; SALVAGE THERAPY; TEMPERATURE; TUMOR REGRESSION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA TUMOR;

EID: 24644500775     PISSN: 15071367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1507-1367(05)71085-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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