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PurposeThe purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate the efficacy and feasibility of short-course hypofractionated radiotherapy (RT) for the palliation of uterine cervical cancer.Materials and MethodsSeventeen patients with cancer of the uterine cervix, who underwent palliative hypofractionated 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy between January 2002 and June 2012, were retrospectively analyzed. RT was delivered to symptomatic lesions (both the primary mass and/or metastatic regional lymph nodes). The total dose was 20 to 25 Gy (median, 25 Gy) in 5 Gy daily fractions.ResultsThe median follow-up duration was 12.2 months (range, 4 to 24 months). The median survival time was 7.8 months (range, 4 to 24 months). Vaginal bleeding was the most common presenting symptom followed by pelvic pain (9 patients). The overall response rates were 93.8% and 66.7% for vaginal bleeding control and pelvic pain, respectively. Nine patients did not have any acute side effects and 7 patients showed minor gastrointestinal toxicity. Only 1 patient had grade 3 diarrhea 1 week after completion of treatment, which was successfully treated conservatively. Late complications occurred in 4 patients; however, none of these were of grade 3 or higher severity.ConclusionShort-course hypofractionated RT was effective and well tolerated as palliative treatment for uterine cervical cancer.

We consider type IIB supergravity in ten dimensions compactified on S 1 ϫT 4 , with intersecting one and five D-branes in the compact dimensions. By imposing spherical symmetry in the resulting five-dimensional theory, we further reduce the s-wave sector of the theory to a two-dimensional dilaton gravity. Via this construction, the techniques developed for the general two-dimensional dilaton gravities are applicable in this context. Specifically, we obtain the bosonic sector general static solutions. In addition to the well-known asymptotically flat black hole solutions, they include solutions with naked singularities and nonasymptotically flat black holes.

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General static solutions of effectively 2-dimensional Einstein-Dilaton-Maxwell-Scalar theories are obtained. Our model action includes a class of 2-d dilaton gravity theories coupled with a U(1) gauge field and a massless scalar field. Therefore it also describes the spherically symmetric reduction of d-dimensional Einstein-Scalar-Maxwell theories. The properties of the analytic solutions are briefly discussed.Recently, Gürses and Sermutlu derived general static spherically symmetric so-