Radiotherapy of malignant hepatic diseases
Description
66 patients with malignant primary liver-tumors and liver-metastases from different histologic types were treated by radiotherapy between 1970 and 1984. Five patients had primary tumors and 61 metastases. The desired dose was 2400cGy within three weeks, several patients received yet higher doses. In 45 cases radiation treatment was combined with a simultaneously or sequentially delivered polychemotherapy. The median survival of the expired was five months, nine patients survived one year. Three patients are alive more than one, five and seven years, their history is reported. Radiotherapy is either alone or in combination with chemotherapy an effective method for palliation in liver malignancies. In a few cases even longer lasting survival times are possible. (orig.)
Abstract (German)
Bericht ueber die Strahlenbehandlung von 66 Patienten mit malignen Primaertumoren der Leber und Lebermetastasen unterschiedlicher Herkunft in den Jahren 1970 bis 1984. Fuenf Patienten hatten Primaerturmoren und 61 Lebermetastasen. Fuer die Strahlentherapie wurde eine Dosis von 2400cGy in drei Wochen angestrebt, einige Patienten erhielten eine noch hoehere Dosis. In 45 Faellen erfolgte die Bestrahlung in Kombination mit einer simultanen oder sequentiellen Polychemotherapie. Die Durchschnittsueberlebenszeit aller verstorbenen Patienten mit Lebermetastasen betrug fuenf Monate. Neun Patienten ueberlebten ein Jahr. Drei Patienten sind derzeit langfristig am Leben, ihre Kasuistik wird beschrieben. Die Strahlentherapie stellt mit und ohne gleichzeitige Chemotherapie eine wertvolle Palliativmassnahme dar. Langfristiges Ueberleben ist in Einzelfaellen moeglich. (orig.)Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (German)
- Strahlentherapie maligner Lebererkrankungen
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Strahlentherapie
- Journal Volume
- 161
- Journal Issue
- 8
- Series
- Strahlentherapie.
- Journal Page Range
- 492-497
- ISSN
- 0039-2073
- CODEN
- STRAA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Germany
- Country of Input or Organization
- Germany
- INIS RN
- 17006673
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Descriptors DEI
- CARCINOMAS; CAT SCANNING; CHEMOTHERAPY; EXTERNAL IRRADIATION; IMAGES; IRRADIATION PROCEDURES; LIVER; METASTASES; OPACITY; PATIENTS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS; RADIATION DOSES; RADIOTHERAPY; SCINTISCANNING; SURVIVAL TIME
- Descriptors DEC
- BODY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISEASES; GLANDS; IRRADIATION; MEDICINE; NEOPLASMS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; ORGANS; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING; THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY