Concurrent weekly cisplatin plus external beam radiotherapy and high-dose rate brachytherapy for advanced cervical cancer: A control cohort comparison with radiation alone on treatment outcome and complications

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1370-1377

  Chen, Shang Wen ^a,b   Liang, Ji An ^a,b   Hung, Yao Ching ^a,b   Yeh, Lian Shung ^a,b   Chang, Wei Chun ^a,b   Lin, Wu Chou ^a,b   Yang, Shih Neng ^a,b   Lin, Fang Jen ^a,b  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Carcinoma of the cervix; Complications; Concurrent chemoradiotherapy; High dose rate brachytherapy; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; DOSIMETRY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY;

CARCINOMA OF THE CERVIX; COMPLICATIONS; CONCURRENT CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; HIGH DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY;

ONCOLOGY;

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE MARROW DEPRESSION; CANCER SURVIVAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTITIS; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE INJURY; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URETER OBSTRUCTION; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33751161447     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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