Treatment of medium-sized juxtapapillary melanoma with external Co-60 photon therapy
| Autor: | George Shenouda, Micheline Gosselin, Marina Olivares, Christine Corriveau, David Roberge, Scott Nordstrom |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Visual acuity Visual Acuity Actuarial survival Ophthalmology Humans Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Cobalt Radioisotopes Melanoma Aged Retrospective Studies Photons Functional vision business.industry Eye Neoplasms Hematology Middle Aged medicine.disease Survival Analysis Oncology Female Photon therapy medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Radiotherapy and Oncology. 74:71-73 |
| ISSN: | 0167-8140 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.radonc.2004.10.003 |
| Popis: | Twenty-six patients with medium-sized juxtapapillary choroidal melanomas were irradiated using D-shaped Co-60 beams. The overall 5-year actuarial survival was 86% with a trend towards better 5-year local control with 70 vs. 60 Gy (100 vs. 75%). Of patients with pre-treatmentor =20/200 visual acuity, 37% had functional vision at 5 years. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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