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Intracavity Radiotherapy

Known as: BRACHYTHERAPY, INTRACAVITARY, Intracavitary brachytherapy, Intracavitary Radiation 
A type of internal radiation therapy in which radioactive material sealed in needles, seeds, wires, or catheters is placed directly into a body… 
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Brachytherapy
CDISC SDTM Procedure TerminologyClinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium TerminologyInternal radiotherapy

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Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
OT2-06-02: A Randomized Phase III Study of Conventional Whole Breast Irradiation (WBI) vs Partial Breast Irradiation (PBI) for Women with Stage 0, 1, or 2 Breast Cancer: NSABP B-39/RTOG 0413.
Background Breast-conserving therapy (BCT) with WBI is an accepted option in the treatment of most patients with stage 1 or 2… 
Review
2000
Review
2000
Three-dimensional intensity-modulated radiotherapy in the treatment of nasopharyngeal carcinoma: the University of California-San Francisco experience.
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Quantification of intracavitary brachytherapy parameters and correlation with outcome in patients with carcinoma of the cervix.
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Enhancement of local control in locally advanced node-positive nasopharyngeal carcinoma by adjunctive chemotherapy.
Highly Cited
1994
Highly Cited
1994
Operation and intracavitary photodynamic therapy for malignant pleural mesothelioma: a phase II study.
Highly Cited
1992
Highly Cited
1992
Magnetic resonance imaging during intracavitary gynecologic brachytherapy.
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Pretreatment prognostic factors in carcinoma of the uterine cervix: a multivariable analysis of the effect of age, stage, histology and blood counts on survival.
Review
1981
Review
1981
Routine clinical estimation of rectal, rectosigmoidal, and bladder doses from intracavitary brachytherapy in the treatment of carcinoma of the cervix.
Highly Cited
1968
Highly Cited
1968
The effective attenuation in water of the gamma rays of gold 198, iridium 192, cesium 137, radium 226, and cobalt 60.
The absorption and scatter of radiation in tissue alter the dose distribution around interstitial and intracavitary radioactive… 
Review
1968
Review
1968
The M. D. Anderson method for the computation of isodose curves around interstitial and intracavitary radiation sources. I. Dose from linear sources.
A review of the physical factors that are used to compute the dose in rads at points around linear radium sources has included a… 
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