Clinical outcomes of high-dose-rate interstitial gynecologic brachytherapy using real-time CT guidance

Brachytherapy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 303-310

  Lee, Larissa J ^a   Damato, Antonio L ^a   Viswanathan, Akila N ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Gynecologic brachytherapy; High dose rate brachytherapy; Image guided brachytherapy; Interstitial brachytherapy

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB; CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOMETRIUM CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTERSTITIAL RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; ORGANS AT RISK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CANCER; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIMARY TUMOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTITIS; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADICAL RESECTION; RECTUM; RECURRENT CANCER; SIGMOID; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VAGINA CANCER; VULVA CANCER; VULVOVAGINAL DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84879461732     PISSN: 15384721     EISSN: 18731449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brachy.2012.11.002     Document Type: Article

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