[Fractionated short-time-afterloading with high dose rates in ambulant treatment of inoperable cancer of the uterine corpus].
In the period of 1.6. 1980 to 31.12. 1981 110 patients with inoperable endometrial carcinoma were treated by fractionated short-time afterloading with high dose rates (Buchler, Germany; Iridium-192) or with conventional intracavitary radium-therapy (low dose rates). First clinical results concerning 12-months-survival rate and the observed reactions of bladder and rectum in the afterloading-group and in the radium-group are represented. The one-year-survival rate and the side effects in the afterloading-group were comparable to those in the radium-group. 35 out of 40 patients (87,5%) with stage I of the disease treated with Iridium-192 were alive after one year, as compared to 46 out of 59 (77,9%) patients treated with Radium. The rate of radiation side effects showed no statistically significant difference in both groups. In the afterloading-group a hospitalization was not necessary, because anesthesia was not performed during short-time irradiation.
D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D001918:Brachytherapy / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007495:Iridium / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008875:Middle Aged; D010166:Palliative Care; D011868:Radioisotopes / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011879:Radiotherapy Dosage; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy*
D011868:Radioisotopes; D007495:Iridium
Fraktioniertes Kurzzeit-Afterloading mit hohen Dosisraten zur ambulanten Behandlung des inoperablen Korpuskarzinoms.