Improved survival of patients with cervical cancer treated with image-guided brachytherapy compared with conventional brachytherapy

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 231-238

  Rijkmans, E C ^a   Nout, R A ^a   Rutten, I H H M ^a   Ketelaars, M ^a   Neelis, K J ^a   Laman, M S ^a   Coen, V L M A ^b   Gaarenstroom, K N ^a   Kroep, J R ^a   Creutzberg, C L ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Zeeuws Radiotherapy Institute   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cervical cancer; GEC ESTRO guidelines; Image guided brachytherapy; Primary chemoradiation; Radiotherapy; Survival

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE NECROSIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER REGRESSION; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISTANT METASTASIS; DIVERTICULITIS; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; IMAGE GUIDED BRACHYTHERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTESTINAL BLEEDING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PROCTITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSORY NEUROPATHY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TUMOR RECURRENCE; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, ADENOSQUAMOUS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CISPLATIN; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84913615981     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2014.08.027     Document Type: Article

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