Dose volume parameter D2cc does not correlate with vaginal side effects in individual patients with cervical cancer treated within a defined treatment protocol with very high brachytherapy doses

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 76-79

  Fidarova, Elena F ^a   Berger, Daniel ^a   Schüssler, Sandra ^a,b   Dimopoulos, Johannes ^a   Kirisits, Christian ^a   Georg, Petra ^a   Bachtiary, Barbara ^a   Pötter, Richard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; DVH parameters; Image guided brachytherapy; Vaginal side effects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; TELANGIECTASIA; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA DISEASE; VAGINA SHORTENING; VAGINAL ULCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COLPOSCOPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VAGINA;

EID: 77957859401     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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