Potential Advantages of Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy in Gynecologic Malignancies

Seminars in Radiation Oncology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 144-151

  Jhingran, Anuja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cervical cancer; endometrial cancers; gyn malignancies; IMRT; radiation therapy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION HAZARD; VAGINA CARCINOMA; VULVA CARCINOMA;

CLINICAL TRIALS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 33745232507     PISSN: 10534296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.semradonc.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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