Vessel-contouring-based pelvic radiotherapy in patients with uterine cervical cancer

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 376-380

  Uno, Takashi ^a   Isobe, Koichi ^a   Ueno, Naoyuki ^a   Kobayashi, Hiroki ^a   Sanayama, Yasushi ^a   Mitsuhashi, Akira ^a   Shozu, Makio ^a   Ito, Hisao ^a  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contouring; Lymph node; Pelvic radiotherapy; Uterine cervix cancer

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTANT METASTASIS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW DRUG DOSE; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SACROILIAC JOINT; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VESSEL CONTOURING ASSISTED PELVIC RADIOTHERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; ALLOYS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PELVIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 66449107177     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: 14653621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/hyp029     Document Type: Article

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