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Thermoradiotherapy for Genitourinary and Gynecological Tumors

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Thermoradiotherapy and Thermochemotherapy

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Abstract

Advances in the clinical application of thermoradiotherapy in the treatment of genitourinary and gynecological malignancies have been hampered by the same limitations as in most other sites: (a) methods are inadequate for sufficiently heating the entire tumor without exceeding normal tissue or patient tolerance; (b) documentation of tumor heating with adequate invasive thermometry is difficult, hazardous, and uncomfortable; (c) tumor responses in an individual patient may be attributable to the conventional treatment modality alone rather than the adjunctive hyperthermia

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Gibbs, F.A. (1996). Thermoradiotherapy for Genitourinary and Gynecological Tumors. In: Thermoradiotherapy and Thermochemotherapy. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60938-1_9

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