HDR endobronchial brachytherapy in palliative and combined radical treatment of lung cancer

In patients with advanced or metastatic lung cancer who present predominantly with dyspnoea and haemoptysis the use of HDR brachytherapy has been proven an effective method of palliation. The application of brachytherapy as a boost to EBRT in curative cases is much more restricted. It can be conside...

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Autor principal: Fijuth, Jacek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2010
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5086491/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28050177
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description In patients with advanced or metastatic lung cancer who present predominantly with dyspnoea and haemoptysis the use of HDR brachytherapy has been proven an effective method of palliation. The application of brachytherapy as a boost to EBRT in curative cases is much more restricted. It can be considered in a selected group of patients with dominating endobronchial disease, who are medically inoperable, or have small or occult carcinomas of the lung.
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spelling pubmed-50864912017-01-03 HDR endobronchial brachytherapy in palliative and combined radical treatment of lung cancer Fijuth, Jacek J Contemp Brachytherapy Review Article In patients with advanced or metastatic lung cancer who present predominantly with dyspnoea and haemoptysis the use of HDR brachytherapy has been proven an effective method of palliation. The application of brachytherapy as a boost to EBRT in curative cases is much more restricted. It can be considered in a selected group of patients with dominating endobronchial disease, who are medically inoperable, or have small or occult carcinomas of the lung. Termedia Publishing House 2010-01-13 2009-12 /pmc/articles/PMC5086491/ /pubmed/28050177 Text en Copyright: © 2010 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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HDR endobronchial brachytherapy in palliative and combined radical treatment of lung cancer
title HDR endobronchial brachytherapy in palliative and combined radical treatment of lung cancer
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title_fullStr HDR endobronchial brachytherapy in palliative and combined radical treatment of lung cancer
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title_short HDR endobronchial brachytherapy in palliative and combined radical treatment of lung cancer
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28050177
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