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  1. Local ablative treatment strategies are frequently offered to patients diagnosed with oligometastatic disease. Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), as ablative treatment option, is well established for lung ...

    Authors: Laila König, Matthias F. Häfner, Sonja Katayama, Stefan A. Koerber, Eric Tonndorf-Martini, Denise Bernhardt, Bastian von Nettelbladt, Fabian Weykamp, Philipp Hoegen, Sebastian Klüter, Matthew S. Susko, Jürgen Debus and Juliane Hörner-Rieber

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:30

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  2. Following publication of the original article [1], we have been notified that the below text parts of the Discussion chapter should be changed.

    Authors: Kilian-Simon Baumann, Veronika Flatten, Uli Weber, Stefan Lautenschläger, Fabian Eberle, Klemens Zink and Rita Engenhart-Cabillic

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:29

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    The original article was published in Radiation Oncology 2019 14:183

  3. Colorectal cancer treatment requires a complex, multidisciplinary approach. Because of the potential variability, monitoring through clinical audits is advisable. This study assesses the effects of a quality i...

    Authors: M. G. Torras, E. Canals, C. Muñoz-Montplet, A. Vidal, D. Jurado, A. Eraso, S. Villà, M. Caro, J. Molero, M. Macià, M. Puigdemont, E. González-Muñoz, A. López, F. Guedea and J. M. Borras

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:28

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  4. Small inter- and intrafractional prostate motion was shown to be a prerequisite for precise radiotherapy (RT) of prostate cancer (PCa) to achieve good local control and low rectal toxicity. As rectal gas and r...

    Authors: Christian Schaefer, Constantinos Zamboglou, Natalja Volegova-Neher, Carmen Martini, Nils Henrik Nicolay, Nina-Sophie Schmidt-Hegemann, Paul Rogowski, Minglun Li, Claus Belka, Arndt-Christian Müller, Anca-Ligia Grosu and Thomas Brunner

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:27

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  5. Single session radiosurgery represents a widely accepted treatment for intracranial meningiomas. However, this approach could involve a high risk of treatment-related complications when applied to large volume...

    Authors: V. Pinzi, M. Marchetti, E. De Martin, V. Cuccarini, I. Tramacere, F. Ghielmetti, M. L. Fumagalli, C. Iezzoni and L. Fariselli

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:26

    Content type: Study protocol

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  6. To evaluate the long-term efficacy and toxicity of radiation therapy in patients with Stage IE primary ocular adnexal mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma.

    Authors: Masanari Niwa, Satoshi Ishikura, Kotoha Tatekawa, Natsuko Takama, Akifumi Miyakawa, Toshinobu Kubota, Eriko Kato and Yuta Shibamoto

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:25

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  7. Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy (SABR) is an effective treatment that improves local control for many tumours. However, the role of SABR in gynecological cancers (GYN) has not been well-established. We hypo...

    Authors: E. Leung, A. Gladwish, A. Sahgal, S. S. Lo, C. A. Kunos, R. M. Lanciano, C. A. Mantz, M. Guckenberger, T. M. Zagar, N. A. Mayr, A. R. Chang, S. Jorcano, T. Biswas, A. Pontoriero and K. V. Albuquerque

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:24

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  8. Curative intent therapy of stage II NSCLC may include surgical resection or definitive radiotherapy. Primary management with surgery or radiotherapy may be influenced by patient and disease characteristics. We...

    Authors: Sara Moore, Bonnie Leung, Jonn Wu and Cheryl Ho

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:23

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  9. To ascertain the dosimetric performance of a new delivery system (the Halcyon system, H) equipped with dual-layer stacked multi-leaf collimator (MLC) for risk-adapted targets in cervix uteri cancer patients co...

    Authors: S. Panda, J. Swamidas, S. Chopra, A. Mangaj, A. Fogliata, P. Kupelian, J. P. Agarwal and L. Cozzi

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:22

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  10. To explore the dosimetric improvement, delivery efficiency, and plan robustness for bilateral head and neck cancer (HNC) treatment utilizing a novel proton therapy technique – the spot-scanning proton arc (SPA...

    Authors: Gang Liu, Xiaoqiang Li, An Qin, Weili Zheng, Di Yan, Sheng Zhang, Craig Stevens, Peyman Kabolizadeh and Xuanfeng Ding

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:21

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  11. There is a lack of data on the biologically effective dose and the efficacy of stereotactic body radiotherapy in hepatocellular carcinoma patients, and this study was conducted to explore the relation between ...

    Authors: Jing Sun, Aimin Zhang, Wengang Li, Quan Wang, Dong Li, Dan Zhang and Xuezhang Duan

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:20

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  12. Despite aggressive treatment regimens comprising surgery and radiochemotherapy, glioblastoma (GBM) remains a cancer entity with very poor prognosis. The development of novel, combined modality approaches neces...

    Authors: Benjamin Stegen, Alexander Nieto, Valerie Albrecht, Jessica Maas, Michael Orth, Klement Neumaier, Sabine Reinhardt, Moritz Weick-Kleemann, Wilfried Goetz, Merle Reinhart, Katia Parodi, Claus Belka, Maximilian Niyazi and Kirsten Lauber

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:19

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  13. Distant Metastases from Head and Neck Squamous cell carcinomas are uncommon (9–11%) and they are usually found in the lung and less frequently in the liver, kidney and adrenals.

    Authors: Agostino Cristaudo, Antonio Stefanelli, Stefano Ursino, Durim Delishaj, Davide Baldaccini, Alessandra Gonnelli and Fabiola Paiar

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:18

    Content type: Case report

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  14. To compare the efficacy and toxicity of hypofractionated radiotherapy versus conventional fractionated radiotherapy in postmastectomy breast cancer using meta-analysis.

    Authors: Lei Liu, Yongqiang Yang, Qi Guo, Bixin Ren, Qiliang Peng, Li Zou, Yaqun Zhu and Ye Tian

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:17

    Content type: Review

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  15. The benefit of adjuvant radiotherapy (ART) for extrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (EHCC) and gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is unclear, with conflicting results from nonrandomized studies. We reported a meta-analysi...

    Authors: Bixin Ren, Qi Guo, Yongqiang Yang, Lei Liu, Shaohua Wei, Wei Chen and Ye Tian

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:15

    Content type: Review

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  16. Limited stage small cell lung cancer (LS-SCLC) has a poor prognosis. Additional prognostic markers are needed for risk-stratification and treatment intensification. This study compares quantitative CT-based vo...

    Authors: Sophia C. Kamran, Thibaud Coroller, Nastaran Milani, Vishesh Agrawal, Elizabeth H. Baldini, Aileen B. Chen, Bruce E. Johnson, David Kozono, Idalid Franco, Nitish Chopra, Roman Zeleznik, Hugo J. W. L. Aerts and Raymond Mak

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:14

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  17. To compare target coverage and dose to the organs at risk in two approaches to rectal cancer: a clinically implemented adaptive radiotherapy (ART) strategy using plan selection, and a non-adaptive (non-ART) st...

    Authors: R. de Jong, J. Visser, K. F. Crama, N. van Wieringen, J. Wiersma, E. D. Geijsen and A. Bel

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:13

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  18. To investigate the role of intensity modulated proton therapy (IMPT) compared to volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) for advanced supradiaphragmatic Hodgkin’s lymphoma (HL) in young female patients by asse...

    Authors: Marta Scorsetti, Luca Cozzi, Pierina Navarria, Antonella Fogliata, Alexia Rossi, Davide Franceschini, Fiorenza De Rose, Ciro Franzese, Carmelo Carlo-Stella and Armando Santoro

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:12

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  19. Neoadjuvant external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT) with concomitant chemotherapy is the current standard-of-care for locally-advanced rectal cancer. Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) is to date only recommended fo...

    Authors: Sergey Potemin, Jens Kübler, Ivan Uvarov, Frederik Wenz and Frank Giordano

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:11

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  21. Homeodomain-interacting protein kinase 2 (HIPK2) has increasingly drawn attention as recent researches demonstrated its unique role in the regulation of multiple fundamental processes such as apoptosis, prolifera...

    Authors: Yang Tang, Li Yang, Wan Qin, Min’ Xiao Yi, Bo Liu and Xiang’Lin Yuan

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:9

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  23. Definitive chemoradiotherapy (dCRT) is a standard treatment for patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer. There is a clinical need for a stratification of this prognostically heterogeneous group of ...

    Authors: Lars Schüttrumpf, Sebastian Marschner, Katrin Scheu, Julia Hess, Sibylle Rietzler, Axel Walch, Philipp Baumeister, Thomas Kirchner, Ute Ganswindt, Horst Zitzelsberger, Claus Belka and Cornelius Maihoefer

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:7

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  24. To determine the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) and α/β-values after fractionated carbon ion irradiations of the rat spinal cord with varying linear energy transfer (LET) to benchmark RBE-model calculati...

    Authors: Maria Saager, Christin Glowa, Peter Peschke, Stephan Brons, Rebecca Grün, Michael Scholz, Jürgen Debus and Christian P. Karger

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:6

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  25. mmune checkpoint inhibition (CPI) has an increasing impact in the multimodal treatment of locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC). Increasing evidence suggests treatment outcome depending on tum...

    Authors: Kathrin Gennen, Lukas Käsmann, Julian Taugner, Chukwuka Eze, Monika Karin, Olarn Roengvoraphoj, Jens Neumann, Amanda Tufman, Michael Orth, Simone Reu, Claus Belka and Farkhad Manapov

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:5

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  26. Intra-and inter-tumoral heterogeneity in growth dynamics and vascularity influence tumor response to radiation therapy. Quantitative imaging techniques capture these dynamics non-invasively, and these data can...

    Authors: David A. Hormuth II, Angela M. Jarrett and Thomas E. Yankeelov

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2020 15:4

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  27. The development of epidermal growth factor receptor-tyrosine kinase inhibitors (EGFR-TKIs) has dramatically improved the prognosis of patients with EGFR-mutant non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The purpose o...

    Authors: Lihao Zhao, Xiaona Cai, Didi Chen, Xuxue Ye, Mengdan Gao, Lihuai Lu, Huafang Su, Meng Su, Meng Hou and Congying Xie

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 15:3

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  28. Individual radiosensitivity is influencing the outcome of radiation therapy. A general ex vivo testing is very work-intensive. It is of interest to see if a significant prediction concerning the sensitivity ca...

    Authors: Theresa Mayo, Marlen Haderlein, Barbara Schuster, Anna Wiesmüller, Christian Hummel, Maximilian Bachl, Manfred Schmidt, Rainer Fietkau and Luitpold Distel

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 15:2

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  29. Iodine seed implant brachytherapy is indicated for low risk and selected favorable intermediate risk prostate cancers. A percentage of positive biopsies > 50% is usually considered as a contra-indication, and ...

    Authors: Claire Meynard, Andres Huertas, Charles Dariane, Sandra Toublanc, Quentin Dubourg, Saik Urien, Marc-Olivier Timsit, Arnaud Méjean, Nicolas Thiounn and Philippe Giraud

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 15:1

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  30. Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) techniques have recently been implemented in clinical practice for total-body irradiation (TBI). To date, most techniques still use special couches, translational tables...

    Authors: Christoph Losert, Roel Shpani, Robert Kießling, Philipp Freislederer, Minglun Li, Franziska Walter, Maximilian Niyazi, Michael Reiner, Claus Belka and Stefanie Corradini

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:244

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  31. Existing pencil beam analytical (PBA) algorithms for proton therapy treatment planning are not ideal for sites with heterogeneous tissue density and do not account for the spatial variations in proton relative...

    Authors: Yolanda D. Tseng, Shadonna M. Maes, Gregory Kicska, Patricia Sponsellor, Erik Traneus, Tony Wong, Robert D. Stewart and Jatinder Saini

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:243

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  32. Cardiac activity could impact the accuracy of dose assessment for the heart, pericardium and left ventricular myocardium (LVM). The purpose of this study was to explore whether it is possible to perform dose a...

    Authors: Ying Tong, Guanzhong Gong, Ming Su and Yong Yin

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:242

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  33. The effectiveness of proton beam therapy (PBT) as initial treatment for patients with unresectable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) is unclear, particularly as related to ICC histological subtypes. We per...

    Authors: Shosei Shimizu, Toshiyuki Okumura, Yoshiko Oshiro, Nobuyoshi Fukumitsu, Kuniaki Fukuda, Kazunori Ishige, Naoyuki Hasegawa, Haruko Numajiri, Keiko Murofushi, Kayoko Ohnishi, Masashi Mizumoto, Tetsuo Nonaka, Hitoshi Ishikawa and Hideyuki Sakurai

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:241

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  34. As optic nerve sheath meningiomas (ONSM) are rare, there are no prospective studies. Our retrospective analysis focusses on a cohort of patients with uniform disease characteristics all treated with the same r...

    Authors: Franziska Eckert, Kerstin Clasen, Carina Kelbsch, Felix Tonagel, Benjamin Bender, Ghazaleh Tabatabai, Daniel Zips, Daniela Thorwarth, Bettina Frey, Gerd Becker, Helmut Wilhelm and Frank Paulsen

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:240

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  35. conjunctival melanomas have high local relapse rates. Oncologic and visual outcomes can be improved with proton therapy and no-touch surgery.

    Authors: Juliette Thariat, Julia Salleron, Celia Maschi, Edouard Fevrier, Sandra Lassalle, Lauris Gastaud, Stephanie Baillif, Audrey Claren, Florent Baumard, Joel Herault and Jean Pierre Caujolle

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:239

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  36. Helical tomotherapy has been applied to total marrow irradiation (HT-TMI). Our objective was to apply failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) two times separated by 1 year to evaluate and improve the safety o...

    Authors: Jiuling Shen, Xiaoyong Wang, Di Deng, Jian Gong, Kang Tan, Hongli Zhao, Zhirong Bao, Jinping Xiao, An Liu, Yunfeng Zhou, Hui Liu and Conghua Xie

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:238

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  37. In this study, a novel pelvic phantom was developed and used to assess the visibility and presence of artefacts from different types of commercial fiducial markers (FMs) on multi-modality imaging relevant to p...

    Authors: Sarah O. S. Osman, Emily Russell, Raymond B. King, Karen Crowther, Suneil Jain, Cormac McGrath, Alan R. Hounsell, Kevin M. Prise and Conor K. McGarry

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:237

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  38. Some studies have demonstrated that concurrent chemo-radiotherapy is an effective salvage treatment for isolated para-aortic lymph node (PALN) recurrence.

    Authors: Hikaru Kubota, Kayoko Tsujino, Nor Shazrina Sulaiman, Shuhei Sekii, Yoko Matsumoto, Yosuke Ota, Toshinori Soejima, Satoshi Yamaguchi and Ryohei Sasaki

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:236

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  40. To update the clinical outcome of an elderly women cohort with early breast cancer who underwent accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) based on a post-operative single fraction of multicatheter interst...

    Authors: Rémy Kinj, Marie-Eve Chand, Jocelyn Gal, Mathieu Gautier, Daniel Lam Cham Kee and Jean Michel Hannoun-Lévi

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:234

    Content type: Short report

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  41. Tomotherapy-based total body irradiation (TBI) is performed using the head-first position (HFP) and feet-first position (FFP) due to treatment length exceeding the 135 cm limit. To reduce the dosimetric variat...

    Authors: Chae-Seon Hong, Min-Joo Kim, Jihun Kim, Kyung Hwan Chang, Kwangwoo Park, Dong Wook Kim, Min Cheol Han, Hong In Yoon, Jin Sung Kim and Ho Lee

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:233

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  43. The present study investigates the intrafractional accuracy of a frameless thermoplastic mask used for head immobilization during stereotactic radiotherapy. Non-invasive masks cannot completely prohibit head m...

    Authors: Julian Mangesius, Thomas Seppi, Rocco Weigel, Christoph Reinhold Arnold, Danijela Vasiljevic, Georg Goebel, Peter Lukas, Ute Ganswindt and Meinhard Nevinny-Stickel

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:231

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  44. How to protect the ovarian function during radiotherapy is uncertain. The purpose of this study was to explore the association between the location of the transposed ovary and the ovarian dose in patients with...

    Authors: Xiao-juan Lv, Xiao-long Cheng, Ye-qiang Tu, Ding-ding Yan and Qiu Tang

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:230

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  46. The new staging system of cervical cancer issued in 2018 by the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO), calls for a new evaluation of the efficacy of prophylactic extended field irradiati...

    Authors: Qingyu Meng, Xiaoliang Liu, Weiping Wang, Xiaorong Hou, Xin Lian, Shuai Sun, Junfang Yan, Zhikai Liu, Zheng Miao, Ke Hu and Fuquan Zhang

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:228

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  47. Current standard of treatment for newly diagnosed patients with glioblastoma (GBM) is surgical resection with adjuvant normofractionated radiotherapy (NFRT) combined with temozolomide (TMZ) chemotherapy. Hyper...

    Authors: Victor Lewitzki, Rainer J. Klement, Rebekka Kosmala, Dominik Lisowski, Michael Flentje and Bülent Polat

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:227

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  48. To determine the best method to contour the planning organ at risk volume (PRV) for the urethra, this study aimed to investigate the displacement of a Foley catheter in the urethra with a soft and thin guide-w...

    Authors: Yasuhiro Dekura, Kentaro Nishioka, Takayuki Hashimoto, Naoki Miyamoto, Ryusuke Suzuki, Takaaki Yoshimura, Ryuji Matsumoto, Takahiro Osawa, Takashige Abe, Yoichi M. Ito, Nobuo Shinohara, Hiroki Shirato and Shinichi Shimizu

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:226

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  49. The purpose of this study was to determine the associations between pathological complete remission (pCR) and clinical outcomes in patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) w...

    Authors: Kai Wang, Junlin Yi, Xiaodong Huang, Yuan Qu, Jingwei Luo, Jianping Xiao, Shiping Zhang, Yuan Tang, Weixin Liu, Guozhen Xu, Li Gao, Zhengang Xu, Shaoyan Liu and Xiaolei Wang

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:225

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  50. To develop a novel approach to accurately verify patient set up in proton radiotherapy, especially for the verification of the nozzle – body surface air gap and source-to-skin distance (SSD), the consistency a...

    Authors: Xiao Wang, Chi Ma, Rihan Davis, Rahul R. Parikh, Salma K. Jabbour, Bruce G. Haffty, Ning J. Yue, Ke Nie and Yin Zhang

    Citation: Radiation Oncology 2019 14:224

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