MRI-guided high-dose-rate intracavitary brachytherapy for treatment of cervical cancer: The university of Pittsburgh experience

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 540-547

  Gill, Beant S ^a   Kim, Hayeon ^a   Houser, Christopher J ^a   Kelley, Joseph L ^a   Sukumvanich, Paniti ^a   Edwards, Robert P ^a   Comerci, John T ^a   Olawaiye, Alexander B ^a   Huang, Marilyn ^a   Courtney Brooks, Madeleine ^a   Beriwal, Sushil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASES; HISTOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES;

CANCER-SPECIFIC SURVIVAL RATES; CLINICAL TARGET VOLUMES; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION THERAPY; GYNECOLOGIC MALIGNANCIES; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODS AND MATERIALS; UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH;

RADIOTHERAPY;

CISPLATIN; IRIDIUM 192;

ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA; ADENOSQUAMOUS CARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; BRACHYTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CANCER SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOVAGINAL FISTULA; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTRACAVITARY DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING GUIDED BRACHYTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGANS AT RISK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA; ADENOCARCINOMA; CANCER STAGING; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; INTERVENTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TUMOR VOLUME; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRACHYTHERAPY; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, INTERVENTIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PENNSYLVANIA; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TUMOR BURDEN; UNIVERSITIES; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84923241742     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2014.10.053     Document Type: Conference Paper

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