Dosimetric Evaluation of the Uterus in Patients Receiving Total Body Irradiation with Ovarian Shielding

Dosimetric Evaluation of the Uterus in Patients Receiving Total Body Irradiation with Ovarian Shielding

Infertility is a well-known late complication in patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). We previously reported that total body irradiation (TBI) with ovarian shielding reduces the radiation dose to the ovaries to 2.4 Gy – one-fifth of the dose compared to conventional TBI...

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Main Authors: Keiko Akahane, Shinichi Kako, Masato Suzuki, Yuta Takahashi, Shogo Hatanaka, Masahiro Kawahara, Yukari Nakada, Kazunari Ogawa, Satoru Takahashi, Yukiko Fukuda, Masashi Endo, Noriko Oyama-Manabe, Yoshinobu Kanda, Katsuyuki Shirai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2022-09-01
Series:Case Reports in Oncology
Subjects:
total body irradiation
ovarian shielding
fertility
uterus
radiation dose
Online Access:https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/526536

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