Treatment of locally advanced vaginal cancer with radiochemotherapy and magnetic resonance image-guided adaptive brachytherapy: Dose-volume parameters and first clinical results

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1880-1888

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

^a METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Image guided adaptive brachytherapy; Vaginal cancer

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE SIDE EFFECTS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CERVIX CANCERS; CLINICAL FEASIBILITY; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; DISTANT METASTASIS; DOSE-VOLUME PARAMETERS; EQUIVALENT DOSE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; GROSS TUMOR VOLUME; IMAGE-GUIDED; INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION; LINEAR-QUADRATIC MODELS; LOCAL CONTROL; LOCAL RECURRENCE; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANS AT RISKS; OVERALL SURVIVAL RATES; RADIOCHEMOTHERAPY; STANDARD DEVIATION; TREATMENT OUTCOMES; TREATMENT PLANNING; VAGINAL CANCER;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DIAGNOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY; TUMORS;

DISEASES;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISTANT METASTASIS; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FISTULA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGE GUIDED ADAPTIVE BRACHYTHERAPY; NECROSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PERIURETHRAL NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VAGINA CANCER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; RECTOVAGINAL FISTULA; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR BURDEN; VAGINAL NEOPLASMS; VESICOVAGINAL FISTULA;

EID: 84860389451     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.03.049     Document Type: Article

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