IV. The Treatment of Carcinoma of the Cervix by a Combination of Intra-cavitary Radium and Arc Therapy
| Autor: | Margaret D. Snelling, Babette E. Stern |
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| Rok vydání: | 1958 |
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Radiotherapy business.industry medicine.medical_treatment Carcinoma Uterine Cervical Neoplasms chemistry.chemical_element General Medicine medicine.disease Marie curie Radiation therapy Radium Arc (geometry) medicine.anatomical_structure chemistry medicine Humans Arc therapy Female Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging business Nuclear medicine Cervix |
| Zdroj: | The British Journal of Radiology. 31:298-306 |
| ISSN: | 1748-880X 0007-1285 |
| Popis: | This paper describes work done at the Marie Curie Hospital, where arc therapy has been used for the treatment of a variety of pelvic conditions. On the whole it has been found to have little or no advantage over conventional or multi-field techniques when treating large volumes, since here it is necessary to use large fields and arcs which involve irradiating through the wider diameters of the patient and often through considerable thicknesses of bone. This results in undesirably large integral doses and relatively low tumour doses. On the other hand, the technique is of definite value in treating cylinders of tissues of small diameter, since here small arcs may be used, placed in a favourable position with regard to the depth of the tumour and the presence of bone. In fact, the arc is usually placed over much the same area of the skin which would be selected for the skin fields when planning a conventional multi-field technique. This technique has been developed especially for the treatment of the parame... |
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