作者: F. A. Gibbs
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-60938-1_9
关键词: Prostatic disease 、 Hyperthermia 、 Conventional treatment 、 Bladder cancer 、 Radiology 、 Genitourinary system 、 Pelvic tumor 、 Patient tolerance 、 Medicine 、 Normal tissue
摘要: Advances in the clinical application of thermoradiotherapy treatment genitourinary and gynecological malignancies have been hampered by same limitations as most other sites: (a) methods are inadequate for sufficiently heating entire tumor without exceeding normal tissue or patient tolerance; (b) documentation with adequate invasive thermometry is difficult, hazardous, uncomfortable; (c) responses an individual may be attributable to conventional modality alone rather than adjunctive hyperthermia