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- Title
The role of computed tomography in establishing the treatment plan for cervical cancer.
- Authors
Burcea, Georgeta; Zamfir, Simona; Pană, Teodor
- Abstract
Cervical cancer represents 15% of the total malignant tumours in Romania, first place in female genital cancers and the second cause of death in women. Radiotherapy is the only treatment used for early stage I cervical cancer and can be associated with chemotherapy in advanced stage II or early stage III and IV. Sometimes radiotherapy is also used after surgery, and in advanced stages, when a large dissemination occurs to other organs, it can be used as a palliative treatment to control bleeding and pain. Each radiotherapy patient will initially perform a planning tomography on which the proper treatment plan will be completed. The planning tomography differs from the diagnosis tomographic examination and takes place according to specific radiotherapy treatment procedures established by the radiotherapy physician and the directions of the medical physicist. Differences are both in data acquisition and at technical level, because during the examination the position of the patient's body and a certain physiological state must be identical or as accurate as possible to those of the radiotherapy session.
- Subjects
CERVICAL cancer treatment; COMPUTED tomography
- Publication
Oncolog-Hematolog, 2017, Issue 39, p68
- ISSN
2066-8716
- Publication type
Article