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A Brief Review of Low-Dose Rate (LDR) and High-Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy Boost for High-Risk Prostate [PDF]
Frontiers in Oncology, 2019 For patients with unfavorable or high-risk prostate cancer, dose escalated radiation therapy leads to improved progression free survival but attempts to deliver increased dose by external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) alone can be limited by late ...
Benjamin W. Fischer-Valuck +4 more
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A prospective longitudinal study of the changes in multidimensional fatigue and its associated factors in patients undergoing brachytherapy for cervical cancer [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe changes of multidimensional fatigue and associated factors in patients undergoing brachytherapy for cervical cancer are unknown. This study aimed to evaluate changes in multidimensional fatigue with associated factors during and one month after the ...
Yifan Ye +6 more
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RADIOISOTOPES, 2012 Brachytherapy do require a minimal expansion of CTV to obtain PTV and it is called as ultimate high precision radiation therapy. In high-dose rate brachytherapy, applicators will be placed around or into the tumor and CT or MRI will be performed with the applicators in situ.
P Bownes, C Richardson, C Lee
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Prostate International, 2023 Around 40 years have passed since a modern low-dose-rate (LDR) brachytherapy for prostate cancer was introduced. LDR brachytherapy has become one of the definitive treatment options besides radical prostatectomy (RP) and external beam radiation therapy ...
Nobumichi Tanaka
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BMC Cancer, 2022 Background Large-scale trials have shown that hypofractionated adjuvant breast radiotherapy was as effective in terms of survival and local control as conventional fractionated radiotherapy, and acute toxicity was reduced with hypofractionated ...
Marie Bruand +11 more
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Life, 2022 (1) Current breast-conserving therapy for breast cancer consists of a combination of many consecutive treatment modalities. The most crucial goal of postoperative treatment is to eradicate potentially relapse-forming residual cancerous cells within the ...
Adam Chicheł +6 more
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Combined Interstitial and Intracavitary High-Dose Rate Brachytherapy of Cervical Cancer
Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 High-dose-rate brachytherapy by remote afterloading is now performed under three-dimensional image guidance by CT or MRI. Three-dimensional image-guided brachytherapy in cervical cancer disclosed that the traditional intracavitary brachytherapy by ...
Jun Itami +13 more
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Clinical applications of custom-made vaginal cylinders constructed using three-dimensional printing technology. [PDF]
, 2016 PurposeThree-dimensional (3D) printing technology allows physicians to rapidly create customized devices for patients. We report our initial clinical experience using this technology to create custom applicators for vaginal brachytherapy.Material and ...
Cunha, Adam +6 more
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Prostate Cancer and Prostatic Diseases, 1998 In recent years there has been an increase in the number of centres, especially in the USA, using prostate brachytherapy as a means of treating localised prostate cancer. Several centres now have medium term follow up data of large numbers of patients treated with this technique suggesting that outcome in terms of tumour control may be comparable to ...
D, Ash, D M, Bottomley, B M, Carey
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Local treatment failure after globe-conserving therapy for choroidal melanoma. [PDF]
, 2013 Local treatment failure after globe-conserving therapy for choroidal melanoma is a surgical complication with significant morbidity to the vision and eye. Few reports in the literature have addressed this complication exclusively.
Chang, Melinda Y, McCannel, Tara A
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