Radiochemotherapy combined with regional pelvic hyperthermia induces high response and resectability rates in patients with nonresectable cervical cancer ≥FIGO IIB "bulky"

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1159-1167

  Sreenivasa, Geetha ^a   Hildebrandt, Bert ^a   Kümmel, Sherko ^a   Jungnickel, Kirsten ^a   Cho, Chie Hee ^a   Tilly, Wolfgang ^a   Böhmer, Dirk ^a   Budach, Volker ^a   Felix, Roland ^a   Wust, Peter ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical carcinoma; Chemoradiation; Preoperative; Regional hyperthermia

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; GYNECOLOGY; OBSTETRICS; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; TOXICITY;

CERVICAL CARCINOMA; CHEMORADIATION; REGIONAL HYPERTHERMIA;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; DEXAMETHASONE; GRANISETRON; TROPISETRON;

ADULT; AGED; ALOPECIA; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTITIS; DIARRHEA; DYSURIA; FATIGUE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; HYSTERECTOMY; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; NAUSEA; NEPHROTOXICITY; POLLAKISURIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; SKIN DEFECT; STOMATITIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; HYSTERECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PELVIS; RADIOTHERAPY, HIGH-ENERGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33745093128     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.06.052     Document Type: Article

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