American Brachytherapy Society consensus guidelines for locally advanced carcinoma of the cervix. Part II: High-dose-rate brachytherapy

Brachytherapy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 47-52

  Viswanathan, Akila N ^a   Beriwal, Sushil ^b   De Los Santos, Jennifer F ^c   Demanes, D Jeffrey ^d   Gaffney, David ^e   Hansen, Jorgen ^a   Jones, Ellen ^f   Kirisits, Christian ^g   Thomadsen, Bruce ^h   Erickson, Beth ⁱ  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c The University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

ⁱ MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Brachytherapy; Cervical cancer; High dose rate

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN;

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DOSIMETRY; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; HIGH DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RADIATION RESPONSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

BRACHYTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; UNITED STATES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84856022087     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: 18731449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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