Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.24141/1/3/2/8
Difference in the Incidence of Early Complications of Teletherapy of Cervical Cancer between 2D and 3D Planned Patients
Dorjana Vidmar
; Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, UHC Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Adem Hajredini
; Department of Gynaecology and Obstetrics, UHC Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Treatment of cervical cancer depends on many factors and one of the treatment methods, besides surgical treatment, is radiotherapy. Radiotherapy is the use of ionizing radiation in the treatment of malignant and some benign diseases, aimed at destroying tumour cells with radiation, thus preserving surrounding healthy tissue. 2D radiotherapy and nowadays 3D radiotherapy are significant in this regard.
The aim of this research was to determine the difference in the incidence of early complications (reactions) of teletherapy between 2D planned patients and 3D planned patients. In this research, we compared the treatment results of 40 patients that had cervical cancer (stage IIB or IIIB) of which 20 patients were planned with 2D therapy and the remaining 20 were planned with 3D therapy. The research was conducted as a survey in order to determine if there is a difference in the incidence of early complications of teletherapy of cervical cancer between 2D and 3D planned patients, which would suggest the need for research on a larger number of patients. Although a significant difference between the aforementioned planning methods was expected, both in response to treatment and in the incidence of complications, this research showed that this did not happen.
Keywords
cervical cancer; 2D radiotherapy planning; 3D radiotherapy planning; early complications of teletherapy
Hrčak ID:
190942
URI
Publication date:
18.12.2017.
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