Serviks Kanserinde Radyoterapi Tedavisinin Yeri ve Önemi

Cervical cancer ranks second in terms of frequency of gynecological cancers. Radiation therapy used to treat cervical cancer in the process nearly a century. In particular, became first-line treatment in locally advanced disease. Provides a low control rate in large tumors with external beam radiotherapy alone. Large tumors with the use of brachytherapy in cervical cancer control rates were also increased. The most common work chemoradiotherapy cisplatin, 5-FU and mitomycin-C, hydroxyurea, is used. Suffered as a result of these studies, randomized trials that applied chemoradiotherapy implementation of chemoradiation in cervical cancer, especially cisplatin shown to provide a survival advantagein recent years, in order to increase the effectiveness of radiotherapy with chemoradiotherapy was introduced.