[Implementation of transabdominal ultrasound image guided conformal intensity modulated radiotherapy].

Purpose: Optically guided ultrasound imaging has been used in our department since 2003 in order to implement an on line correction scheme in intensity modulated radiation therapy of prostate carcinoma.

Patients And Methods: The corrections observed during the initial time period of the system (17 patients) are compared to those observed more recently (10 patients). Treatment margins are calculated.

Impact on treatment outcome and late effects of customized treatment planning in cervix carcinomas: baseline results to compare new strategies.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to determine the predictive factors of complications, to evaluate the impact of customized treatment planning on late normal tissue effects per stage, and to report disease-free survival (DFS) and local control (LC) rates.

Methods And Materials: From 1970 to 1994, 642 patients were treated with radiotherapy alone for carcinoma of the intact uterine cervix. According to the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) substaging, 34% were Stage I, 39% Stage II, and 27% Stage III.