Definitive treatment of extensive anorectal carcinoma by external and interstitial irradiation

✍ Scribed by Ajmel A. Puthawala; A. M. Nisar Syed; Thomas C. Gates; Colleen McNamara

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 946 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-543X
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0142(19821101)50:9<1746::aid-cncr2820500917>3.0.co;2-f

✦ Synopsis

Forty patients with locally extensive carcinoma of the anorectum were treated by a combination of external and interstitial irradiation from April 1, 1974 to January 30, 1979. Twenty-eight patients (70%) achieved complete local tumor control and two more patients with residual tumor were salvaged by surgery. Twenty-four patients remain alive with local control for an average follow up period of three years. The overall complication rate has been 20%.