External irradiation for malignant thyroid tumors
Thirty-eight patients with residual or recurrent primary thyroid cancers which did not take up I-131 were treated with external beam irradiation. Excluding 5 patients with malignant lymphoma, there were 23 patients with local disease and 10 with distant metastases. Doses ranged from 3500 to 7000 rads (35 to 70 Gy) among the 23 with local disease; local tumor control was achieved in 8. Six are alive and well 2 to 11 years later. External beam irradiation should be considered in locally advanced, incompletely resected, recurrent and metastatic thyroid malignancies of all histological types without I-131 uptake. Reviewed are the age and sex distribution, histology, stage, extent of surgery, and dose and radiotherapy technique as they affect survival and patterns of failure.
- Research Organization:
- State Univ. of New York, Syracuse
- OSTI ID:
- 6793813
- Journal Information:
- Radiology; (United States), Vol. 136:3
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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IRRADIATION PROCEDURES
EVALUATION
NEOPLASMS
RADIOTHERAPY
COBALT 60
DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIPS
EXTERNAL IRRADIATION
FRACTIONATED IRRADIATION
GAMMA RADIATION
HEAD
IODINE 131
LINEAR ACCELERATORS
LOCAL IRRADIATION
LYMPHOMAS
METASTASES
MEV RANGE 01-10
NECK
PATIENTS
PHOTONS
RADIATION DOSES
THYROID
ACCELERATORS
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BODY
BODY AREAS
COBALT ISOTOPES
DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
DISEASES
DOSES
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION
ELEMENTARY PARTICLES
ENDOCRINE GLANDS
ENERGY RANGE
GLANDS
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
INTERNAL CONVERSION RADIOISOTOPES
IODINE ISOTOPES
IONIZING RADIATIONS
IRRADIATION
ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES
ISOTOPES
MASSLESS PARTICLES
MEDICINE
MEV RANGE
MINUTES LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ODD-ODD NUCLEI
ORGANS
RADIATIONS
RADIOISOTOPES
RADIOLOGY
THERAPY
YEARS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
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