Publications by authors named "Erik Monpetit"
Article Synopsis
- - Almost half of cancer patients in France are treated at private radiotherapy centres, yet few offer uterovaginal brachytherapy.
- - The limited development of this treatment in private practice is attributed to three main factors: a shortage of trained doctors, the complex organization of the procedure, and inadequate reimbursement policies.
- - The radiation oncologist community in France agrees on the need for better recognition and reimbursement for brachytherapy to prevent its decline.
The treatment landscape in metastatic renal cell carcinoma has changed fundamentally over the last decade by the development of antiangiogenic agents, mammalian target of rapamycin inhibitors and immunotherapy. Outside of the context of a clinical trial, the treatments are used sequentially. We describe results under real-life conditions of a sequential treatment strategy, before the era of immunotherapy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: No study has reported clinical results of external-beam radiotherapy specifically for T3b prostate cancer. The possibility of escalating the dose to the involved seminal vesicles (ISV) while respecting the dose constraints in the organs at risk is thus so far not clearly demonstrated. The objective of the study was to analyze the dose distribution and the clinical outcome in a large series of patients who received IMRT for T3b prostate cancer.
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