Open AccessA Randomized Controlled Trial of Varying Radiation Doses in the Treatment of Choroidal Melanoma
Author(s) -
Evangelos S. Gragoudas
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
archives of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3601
pISSN - 0003-9950
DOI - 10.1001/archopht.118.6.773
Subject(s) - medicine , maculopathy , visual acuity , computable general equilibrium , radiation therapy , optic disc , melanoma , randomized controlled trial , ophthalmology , surgery , nuclear medicine , retinopathy , diabetes mellitus , retinal , macroeconomics , cancer research , economics , endocrinology
To determine if a reduction in proton radiation dose from the standard dose of 70 cobalt gray equivalents (CGE) to 50 CGE would decrease radiation-induced complications, thereby improving visual prognosis, without compromising local tumor control for patients with uveal melanoma at high risk of these complications.