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Clinical Practice of Intracavitary Thermoradiotherapy

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Thermoradiotherapy and Thermochemotherapy

Part of the book series: Medical Radiology ((Med Radiol Radiat Oncol))

Abstract

During the past 15 years intracavitary heating techniques have emerged as useful new methods of applying hyperthermia in the management of carefully selected cancer patients. The selection process begins with the identification of patients who present with locally advanced cancer arising in a wall of a natural body cavity or those with tumors immediately adjacent to a wall of such a cavity. A common example of the former is carcinoma of the esophagus while the latter is represented by carcinoma of the prostate. Due to a limited radial power deposition, intracavitary hyperthermia (ICHT) can be successfully applied only in patients withrelatively small tumors. Generally, tumors considered for treatment with ICHT should not exceed 2 cm in radial dimension while they may be considerably larger in longitudinal dimension (Astrahan et al. 1989a,b, 1991a,b). In patients with tumors exceeding 2 cm in radial dimension, hyperthermic temparatures (>42°C) can only be obtained at the periphery of the lesion with the use of a two-antenna ICHT system (Debicki et al. 1992).

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  1. Department of Radiation Oncology, Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital and Research Institute, 1441 Eastlake Avenue, Room 34, P.O. Box 33804, Los Angeles, 90033-0804, CA, USA

    Z. Petrovich MD (Professor and Chairman), P. Debicki MD & M. A. Astrahan MD

  2. Department of Urology, University of Leuven, St. Peter’s Hospital, Brusselsestraat 69, B-3000, Leuven, Belgium

    L. Baert MD (Professor and Chairman)

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Petrovich, Z., Debicki, P., Astrahan, M.A., Baert, L. (1996). Clinical Practice of Intracavitary Thermoradiotherapy. In: Thermoradiotherapy and Thermochemotherapy. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60938-1_16

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