Proton beam therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma patients with severe cirrhosis

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 182, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 713-720

  Hata, Masaharu ^a,b   Tokuuye, Koichi ^a,b   Sugahara, Shinji ^b   Fukumitsu, Nobuyoshi ^a,b   Hashimoto, Takayuki ^a,b   Ohnishi, Kayoko ^b   Nemoto, Keiko ^b   Ohara, Kiyoshi ^b   Matsuzaki, Yasushi ^b   Akine, Yasuyuki ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatocellular carcinoma; Proton beam therapy; Radiation therapy; Severe cirrhosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION INJURY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUMOR VOLUME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PROGNOSIS; PROTONS; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYNCHROTRONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33845371067     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-006-1564-2     Document Type: Article

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