Hyperthermia dose-effect relationship in 420 patients with cervical cancer treated with combined radiotherapy and hyperthermia

European Journal of Cancer

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1969-1978

  Franckena, Martine ^a   Fatehi, Daryoush ^a,b   Bruijne, Maarten de ^a   Canters, Richard A M ^a   Norden, Yvette van ^a   Mens, Jan Willem ^a   Rhoon, Gerard C van ^a   Zee, Jacoba van der ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b SHAHREKORD UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Hyperthermia; Locally advanced cervical cancer; Radiotherapy; Thermal dose

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION; TOXICITY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY SIZE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTHERMIA, INDUCED; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 67649321438     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2009.03.009     Document Type: Article

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