The use of high dose rate endobronchial brachytherapy to palliate symptomatic recurrence of previously irriadiated lung cancer

Neoplasma

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 239-245

  Kubaszewska, M ^a   Skowronek, J ^a   Chichel A ^a   Kanikowski, M ^a  

^a Greatpoland Cancer Center   (Poland)

Author keywords

Endobronchial recurrence; Palliation; Reirradiation; Repeated HDR brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AERATION; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; COUGHING; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DYSPNEA; ESOPHAGOBRONCHIAL FISTULA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; LUNG CANCER; LUNG COLLAPSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSAL NECROSIS; PNEUMONIA; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECURRENT CANCER; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THERAPY EFFECT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; BRONCHUS TUMOR; EVALUATION; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSE; TRACHEA TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; BRONCHIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRACHEAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 49049112526     PISSN: 00282685     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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