Short-course palliative radiotherapy for uterine cervical cancer
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Short-course palliative radiotherapy for uterine cervical cancer
PURPOSE The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate the efficacy and feasibility of short-course hypofractionated radiotherapy (RT) for the palliation of uterine cervical cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventeen patients with cancer of the uterine cervix, who underwent palliative hypofractionated 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy between January 2002 and June 2012, were retrospe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Radiation Oncology Journal
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2234-1900,2234-3156
DOI: 10.3857/roj.2013.31.4.216