Movement of the Cervix in After-loading Brachytherapy: Implications for Designing External-beam Radiotherapy Boost Fields

Clinical Oncology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 313-319

  Hombaiah, U ^a   Blake, P ^a   Bidmead, M ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; carcinoma cervix; midline shield; parametrial boost

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; GOLD; METHOTREXATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RELAPSE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; KIDNEY DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION FIELD; RADIATION SHIELD; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; VAGINA DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CERVIX UTERI; FEMALE; GOLD; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33645843058     PISSN: 09366555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clon.2005.12.004     Document Type: Article

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