High-dose rate interstitial brachytherapy using two weekly sessions of 10Gy each for patients with locally advanced cervical carcinoma

Brachytherapy

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 242-248

  Sharma, Daya Nand ^a   Rath, Goura Kisor ^a   Thulkar, Sanjay ^a   Kumar, Sunesh ^a   Subramani, Vellaiyan ^a   Julka, Parmod Kumar ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; High dose rate; Interstitial brachytherapy; Locally advanced; Weekly schedule

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER METASTASIS; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTITIS; CYSTOVAGINAL FISTULA; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LUNG METASTASIS; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PELVIC INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUNCTURE; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM DISEASE; RECTUM HEMORRHAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; UTERUS PERFORATION;

ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 79955152431     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2010.09.001     Document Type: Article

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