Purpose: To identify the characteristics, risk factors, and clinical outcomes of radiation enterocolitis requiring surgery in patients with gynecologic malignancies. Methods and Materials: The records of 1,349 patients treated with pelvic radiotherapy were retrospectively reviewed. The majority of the patients (88%) were treated with 50 Gy or 50.4 Gy pelvic irradiation in ...
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Ovarian cancer may be treated with radiation therapy, surgery, chemotherapy, or a combination. To evaluate the contribution of radiation therapy to patient management the cure rate must be estimated; data are presented suggesting that the 5-year survival rate provides a reasonable estimate of the cure rate. A study ...
Extended field abdominopelvic radiation therapy delivering a dose of 6000 rad to para-aortic lymph nodes was tolerated without complication by a group of 8 patients. Para-aortic lymph node biopsy specimens from 30 patients by extraperitoneal surgical approach showed that these patients had metastatic involvement from primary squamous ...
A plan for staged management of pelvic wound complications after combined surgery and radiation therapy for pelvic cancer is presented. Principles emphasized are as follow: wide drainage and irrigation of infected tissues; creation of an abdominopelvic partition, to exclude bowel and gastrointestinal anastomoses away from the pelvis in ...
A significant proportion of patients with epithelial ovarian carcinoma eventually fail after initial responses to chemotherapy. Further treatment with chemotherapy consisting of either the same combination or second-line regimens has been ineffective in producing durable responses. Thus, between June 1983 and June 1987, thirty patients with epithelial ovarian carcinoma who failed one or more ...
A retrospective chart review and questionnaire study was undertaken to look at the long-term effects of radiation therapy in ovarian dysgerminoma patients. Forty-three patients and 55 controls responded to a questionnaire that detailed bowel, bladder, thyroid, menstrual, reproductive, sexual, and growth function. Statistically significant differences in ...
PurposeRadiation has many potential long-term effects on cancer survivors. Female cancer patients may suffer from decreased fertility depending on the site irradiated. Oncologists should be aware of these consequences and discuss options for fertility preservation prior to initiating therapy.DesignA comprehensive review of the existing literature was ...
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Purpose: Radiation has many potential long-term effects on cancer survivors. Female cancer patients may experience decreased fertility depending on the site irradiated. Oncologists should be aware of these consequences and discuss options for fertility preservation before initiating therapy. Methods and Materials: A comprehensive review of the existing ...
Twenty-seven advanced ovarian carcinoma patients who had received six courses of cyclophosphamide/cisplatin and had either microscopic disease (15 patients) or no pathologically detectable disease (12 patients) after second-look laparotomy were treated with abdominopelvic radiation (2250 cGy to the abdomen and pelvis and a 2250-cGy pelvic boost). Acute ...
Eleven patients with advanced stage III ovarian epithelial carcinoma were treated primarily according to an aggressive multimodality plan utilizing cytoreductive surgery, chemotherapy (high-dose cisplatin and Cytoxan), and consolidative radiation therapy (abdominopelvic bath plus pelvic boost). The treatment was tolerated remarkably ...
IntroductionBecause tumors in the abdomen can change position, targeting these tumors for radiation therapy should be done with caution; use of daily image-guided radiation therapy is advised.Case presentationWe report the case of a 72-year-old Caucasian man with recurrent mantle cell lymphoma who was referred for ...
From 1963 through 1984, 74 patients with Stage I, II, or III epithelial ovarian cancer who completed a total hysterectomy and debulking procedure and had less than 2 cm residual disease were treated with whole abdominal and pelvic boost radiation therapy (WAP) at Yale-New Haven Hospital. WAP consisted of a whole abdominal dose of 1750 to 2500 cGy (at ...
... and A study of the metabolic aspects of therapy of radiation injury in the soldier. Descriptors : *RADIATION INJURIES, THERAPY, RADIATION ...
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... Title : Radiation Chimeras and Therapy of Radiation Injuries - USSR -. ... Abstract : Radiation chimeras and therapy of radiation injuries are discussed. ...
Accidental irradiation of an early and unknown pregnancy during abdomino-pelvic computed tomography has not yet been reported, but this situation will certainly occur as the indications for this type of investigation are extended. Assessment of foetal risk depends essentially, as in ordinary radiology, upon the X-ray dose received by the foetus. Only a few studies have been ...
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Purpose: To evaluate disease outcomes and complications in patients with recurrent ovarian cancer treated with cytoreductive surgery and intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT). Methods and Materials: A retrospective study of 24 consecutive patients with ovarian carcinoma who underwent secondary cytoreduction and intraoperative ...
... New therapies are combined with conventional treatment; radiation therapy is a standard therapy for breast cancer. There ...
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The removable synthetic ''pelvic spacer'' prevents intestinal loops from sliding down into the area most heavily exposed to irradiation during a full course of radiotherapy for abdominopelvic neoplasia. Furthermore, it provides a homogeneous distribution of roentgenograms and allows higher dosages of radiation. It ...
... Syndrome in Acute Radiation Injury and an annotated ... METABOLISM, *RADIATION EFFECTS, *RADIATION INJURIES, THERAPY, PATHOLOGY ...
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To present clinical outcomes, early toxicity, and dosimetric constraints for patients undergoing stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for abdominal or pelvic tumors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: From May 2008 to February 2010, 47 patients with 50 lesions in proximity to hollow viscous organs at risk, including stomach, duodenum, small ...
... Quick Links How Does Radiation Therapy Work? External Beam Radiation Therapy Brachytherapy Stereotactic Radiation Therapy Additional Treatment ... radiation. Intraoperative radiation can be given as external beam ...
From April 1983 through December 1989, 42 consecutive patients with diagnosis of epithelial ovarian carcinoma were initially managed by aggressive surgery and three courses of endoperitoneal cis-platinum-based chemotherapy followed by an alternating combination chemotherapy and second-look laparotomy. Patients with residual tumor less than or equal to 2 cm subsequently received whole abdominal ...
