Image-guided intensity-modulated whole abdominal radiation therapy in relapsed epithelial ovarian cancers: A feasibility study

Journal of Cancer Research and Therapeutics

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 17-21

  Shetty, Umesh Mahant ^a   Shankar, Srikant ^a   Engineer, Reena ^a   Chopra, Supriya ^a   Gupta, Sudeep ^a   Maheshwari, Amita ^a   Kerkar, Rajendra ^a   Shrivastava, Shyam Kishore ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Epithelial ovarian cancer; helical tomotherapy based image guided IMRT; whole abdominal radiation

Indexed keywords

CA 125 ANTIGEN; CISPLATIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; GEMCITABINE;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYTOREDUCTIVE SURGERY; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LEUKOPENIA; OVARY CARCINOMA; PELVIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ABDOMEN; ADULT; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM GRADING; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS, GLANDULAR AND EPITHELIAL; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PELVIS; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877313375     PISSN: 09731482     EISSN: 19984138     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0973-1482.110343     Document Type: Article

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