Local recurrences in cervical cancer patients in the setting of image-guided brachytherapy: A comparison of spatial dose distribution within a matched-pair analysis

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 468-472

  Schmid, Maximilian P ^a   Kirisits, Christian ^a   Nesvacil, Nicole ^a   Dimopoulos, Johannes C A ^b   Berger, Daniel ^a   Pötter, Richard ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; DVH; Image guided adaptive brachytherapy; Local recurrences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED ADAPTIVE BRACHYTHERAPY; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 80054061788     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.08.014     Document Type: Article

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