Should helical tomotherapy replace brachytherapy for cervical cancer? Case report

BMC Cancer

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hsieh, Chen Hsi ^a,b   Wei, Ming Chow ^a   Hsu, Yao Peng ^a   Chong, Ngot Swan ^a   Chen, Yu Jen ^b,c,d   Hsiao, Sheng Mou ^a   Hsieh, Yen Ping ^e   Wang, Li Ying ^g   Shueng, Pei Wei ^a,f  

^a FAR EASTERN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d CHINESE CULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^f NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL CENTER   (Taiwan)

^g NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECTUM ULCER; STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY; TOMOTHERAPY; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERUS MYOMA; VAGINA BLEEDING; ADJUVANT CHEMOTHERAPY; BIOPSY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; HYSTERECTOMY; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIOSURGERY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX TUMOR; UTERUS BLEEDING; VAGINA SMEAR;

BIOPSY; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; VAGINAL SMEARS;

EID: 78549283513     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2407-10-637     Document Type: Article

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