Dosimetric and toxicity comparison between prone and supine position IMRT for endometrial cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 485-489

  Beriwal, Sushil ^a,b   Jain, Sheena K ^b   Heron, Dwight E ^a,b   de Andrade, Regiane S ^a   Lin, Chyonghiou J ^a   Kim, Hayeon ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometrial cancer; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Positioning; Toxicity

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETRY; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY; TISSUE; TOXIC MATERIALS;

ENDOMETRIAL CANCER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; POSITIONING;

TUMORS;

CARBOPLATIN; PACLITAXEL;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BODY POSTURE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CHRONIC TOXICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM; SMALL INTESTINE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPINE POSITION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MIDDLE AGED; PRONE POSITION; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTUM; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SUPINE POSITION; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 33846248707     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.08.067     Document Type: Article

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