The development of radiotherapeutic techniques at the beginning of the 21st century in Blokhin Russian Oncological Research Center of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences
Tkachev, S.I.; Nechushkin, M.I.; Iur'eva, T.V.; Rudenko, S.A.; Mikhina, Z.P.; Trofimova, O.P.; Nazarenko, A.V.
Vestnik Rossiiskoi akademii meditsinskikh nauk 2007(10): 9-13
2007
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-6047 PMID: 18050675 Document Number: 607944
The article describes the development of radiotherapeutic techniques in Blokhin Russian Oncological Scientific Center of Russian Academy of Medical Sciences at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries. Such developmental directions in radiation oncology as the development of non-conventional modes of radiation dose fractioning, the development of new radiotherapeutic techniques based on volumetric 3D dosimetric radiotherapy planning, the perfection of combined (contact plus distant) radiotherapy, the use of multidirectional radiomodifying agents, the application of radiotherapy as a part of combined and complex treatment with chemotherapy and surgery in different tumoral sensitivity to conservative treatment, are considered in the article. Immediate and long-term results achieved at the institution by the use of radiotherapy alone or as a part of combined or complex treatment in cases with certain malignant tumor localizations are described.