Image and laparoscopic guided interstitial brachytherapy for locally advanced primary or recurrent gynaecological cancer using the adaptive GEC ESTRO target concept

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 473-479

  Fokdal, Lars ^a   Tanderup, Kari ^a,b   Nielsen, Søren Kynde ^a   Christensen, Henrik Kidmose ^a   Røhl, Lisbeth ^a   Pedersen, Erik Morre ^a   Schønemann, Niels Kim ^a   Lindegaard, Jacob Christian ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Image based brachytherapy; Interstitial brachytherapy; Recurrent gynaecological cancer; Vaginal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RISK; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIARRHEA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INTESTINE STENOSIS; LAPAROSCOPY; LYMPHEDEMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION SAFETY; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RECTUM; RECURRENT CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIGMOID; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA CANCER; VAGINA DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; COLON, SIGMOID; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 80054088212     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.08.016     Document Type: Article

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