Conventional 4-field box radiotherapy technique for cancer cervix: Potential for geographic miss without CECT scan-based planning

International Journal of Gynecological Cancer

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 865-870

  Nagar, Yoodhvir Singh ^a,b   Singh, S ^a   Kumar, S ^a   Lal, P ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b DNB   (India)

Author keywords

4 field technique; Cancer cervix; CECT planning

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MENOPAUSE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOMA; PELVIS; PREMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PELVIS; RADIATION INJURIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 4544332590     PISSN: 1048891X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1048-891x.2004.14522.x     Document Type: Article

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