Classical tandem-source dwelling covering the entire uterus: Essential in modern intracavitary radiotherapy for cervical cancer?

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 386-392

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clinical target volume; Gross tumor volume; Late injury; Optimization; Subclinical disease

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; IFOSFAMIDE; MITOMYCIN C; PEPLEOMYCIN; PLATINUM DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; RADIATION DOSE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; BRACHYTHERAPY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR;

BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 39349117261     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: 18625274     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11604-007-0154-2     Document Type: Article

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