How Long Should Be The Radiation Oncology Treatment for Cervical Cancer?
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Historically locally advanced cervical cancer was treated with teletherapy and a boost with brachytherapy. But in 1999 the treatment changed favorably, thus establishing the current management based on concurrent chemo-radiotherapy, thanks to the publication of some studies [1,2] that showed survival advantage of this disease with the addition of platinum-based chemotherapy and radiotherapy (Figure 1).
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تاریخ انتشار 2016