Is there any place for LDR brachytherapy for head and neck carcinomas in HDR era?

In Poland, the classical LDR brachytherapy for head and neck carcinomas with Ir-192 wires or hairpins has completely disappeared some time ago after 30 years of successful clinical use. Can this technique be fully and safely replaced by HDR or PDR application? This option seems attractive because of...

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Autor principal: Fijuth, Jacek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2009
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5080397/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27799956
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description In Poland, the classical LDR brachytherapy for head and neck carcinomas with Ir-192 wires or hairpins has completely disappeared some time ago after 30 years of successful clinical use. Can this technique be fully and safely replaced by HDR or PDR application? This option seems attractive because of new possibilities of 3D reconstruction and computer real-time treatment planning and optimization. However, in my opinion, long time is needed to get a clinical and scientific experience that has been accumulated for decades with the use of LDR technique.
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spelling pubmed-50803972016-10-31 Is there any place for LDR brachytherapy for head and neck carcinomas in HDR era? Fijuth, Jacek J Contemp Brachytherapy Review Article In Poland, the classical LDR brachytherapy for head and neck carcinomas with Ir-192 wires or hairpins has completely disappeared some time ago after 30 years of successful clinical use. Can this technique be fully and safely replaced by HDR or PDR application? This option seems attractive because of new possibilities of 3D reconstruction and computer real-time treatment planning and optimization. However, in my opinion, long time is needed to get a clinical and scientific experience that has been accumulated for decades with the use of LDR technique. Termedia Publishing House 2009-03-23 2009-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5080397/ /pubmed/27799956 Text en Copyright: © 2009 Termedia Sp. z o. o. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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Is there any place for LDR brachytherapy for head and neck carcinomas in HDR era?
title Is there any place for LDR brachytherapy for head and neck carcinomas in HDR era?
title_full Is there any place for LDR brachytherapy for head and neck carcinomas in HDR era?
title_fullStr Is there any place for LDR brachytherapy for head and neck carcinomas in HDR era?
title_full_unstemmed Is there any place for LDR brachytherapy for head and neck carcinomas in HDR era?
title_short Is there any place for LDR brachytherapy for head and neck carcinomas in HDR era?
title_sort is there any place for ldr brachytherapy for head and neck carcinomas in hdr era?
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