Statements from women with cervical cancer in brachytherapy treatment: subsidies for nursing care
Objective: to know the perceptions of women with cervical cancer in brachytherapy treatment. Method: it is an exploratory and descriptive study of qualitative approach, with 16 women in brachytherapy treatment at specialized service of Florianópolis ...
Adriana Maria da Silva Rubini +3 more
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NRG Oncology-Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Study 1014: 1-Year Toxicity Report From a Phase 2 Study of Repeat Breast-Preserving Surgery and 3-Dimensional Conformal Partial-Breast Reirradiation for In-Breast Recurrence. [PDF]
PURPOSE: To determine the associated toxicity, tolerance, and safety of partial-breast reirradiation. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Eligibility criteria included in-breast recurrence occurring \u3e1 year after whole-breast irradiation, \u3c3 \u3ecm, unifocal ...
Arthur, Douglas W. +17 more
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Recommendations from Gynaecological (GYN) GEC-ESTRO Working Group (IV): Basic principles and parameters for MR imaging within the frame of image based adaptive cervix cancer brachytherapy [PDF]
Johannes Dimopoulos +9 more
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ABSTRACT Background While male breast cancer incidence is rare, veteran status is found to be associated with increased risk, for incidence, a higher prevalence of male breast cancer patients was observed among male veteran prostate cancer survivors.
Erum Z. Whyne +5 more
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Biopsy‐proven residual tumor at the end of chemoradiation identifies patients at high risk for disease progression. Despite achieving a delayed histologic complete response 6 weeks later, these patients show significantly worse progression‐free survival, suggesting the prognostic value of early tissue‐based response assessment during brachytherapy ...
Christoph Ebner +12 more
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Radical radiotherapy is one of the options for the management of prostate cancer. In external beam therapy, 3D conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT) and intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) are the options for delivery of increased radiation dose, as vital ...
Murali V +3 more
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Salvage Brachytherapy for Biochemically Recurrent Prostate Cancer following Primary Brachytherapy
Purpose. In this study, we evaluated our experience with salvage brachytherapy after discovery of biochemical recurrence after a prior brachytherapy procedure. Methods and Materials.
John M. Lacy +6 more
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Utilization of prostate brachytherapy for low risk prostate cancer: Is the decline overstated?
Purpose : Several prior studies have suggested that brachytherapy utilization has markedly decreased, coinciding with the recent increased utilization of intensity modulated radiation therapy, as well as an increase in urologist-owned centers.
Joseph Safdieh +4 more
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Prosper: image and robot-guided prostate brachytherapy
Brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer consists in destroying cancer by introducing iodine radioactive seeds into the gland through hollow needles. The planning of the position of the seeds and their introduction into the prostate is based on intra ...
Baumann, Michael +9 more
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