Carbon-ion radiotherapy for locally advanced or unfavorably located choroidal melanoma: A Phase I/II dose-escalation study

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 857-862

  Tsuji, Hiroshi ^a   Ishikawa, Hitoshi ^a   Yanagi, Takeshi ^a   Hirasawa, Naoki ^a   Kamada, Tadashi ^a   Mizoe, Jun Etsu ^a   Kanai, Tatsuaki ^a   Tsujii, Hirohiko ^a   Ohnishi, Yoshitaka ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RADIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b WAKAYAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon ion radiotherapy; Choroidal melanoma

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANES; DISEASES; PATIENT MONITORING; TISSUE; TUMORS;

CARBON ION RADIOTHERAPY; CHOROIDAL MELANOMA; TISSUE MORBIDITY;

RADIOTHERAPY;

CARBON;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER SURVIVAL; CARBON ION RADIOTHERAPY; CATARACT; CHOROID MELANOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE ESCALATION; DRY EYE; ENUCLEATION; EYE PAIN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; ION THERAPY; KERATITIS; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; TUMOR VOLUME; VISUAL ACUITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CHOROID NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, NEOVASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MELANOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RELATIVE BIOLOGICAL EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 33846850163     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.09.022     Document Type: Article

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