Skip Navigation

JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 1999 91(8):668-670; doi:10.1093/jnci/91.8.668
© 1999 by Oxford University Press
This Article
Right arrow Full Text Freely available
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Request Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by McCann, J.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by McCann, J.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Vol. 91, No. 8, 668-670, April 21, 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

NEWS

For Advanced Cancer, Intraoperative Radiation Garners Mixed Reviews

Jean McCann

Whether intraoperative radiation for advanced cancer is ready for wider use drew some mixed but hopeful responses at a recent annual meeting of the Society of Surgical Oncology in Orlando, Fla.

William Sindelar, M.D., of Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, Md., called intraoperative radiation "a technique for maximizing the radiation dose where it is needed most, while attempting to minimize toxicity to normal structures."

It is also clearly a local modality, although in only a few cases — for breast and some locally advanced rectal tumors — "does this appear to translate into improved survival," according to Sindelar. However, what it does do, in many cases, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Shuffling Suites

Brachytherapy


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?