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The modalities for performing stereotactic radiotherapy (SRT) on the brain include the cone-based linear accelerator (linac), the flattening filter-free (FFF) volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) linac, and...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:155
Published on: 16 September 2017
Review
Since the discovery of X-rays at the end of the 19th century, medical imageology has progressed for 100 years, and medical imaging has become an important auxiliary tool for clinical diagnosis. With the launch of...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:154
Published on: 15 September 2017
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Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for vertebral metastases has emerged as a promising technique, offering high rates of symptom relief and local control combined with low risk of toxicity. Nonetheless, loc...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:153
Published on: 11 September 2017
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Recently developed stereotactic partial breast irradiation (S-PBI) allows delivery of a high biologically potent dose to the target while sparing adjacent critical organs and normal tissue. With S-PBI tumorici...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:151
Published on: 11 September 2017
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Efficacy of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) in stage I non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) has almost been established. In Japan, the protocol of 48 Gy in 4 fractions over 4 days has been most often emplo...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:152
Published on: 11 September 2017
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Given the potential for older patients to experience exaggerated toxicity and symptoms, this study was performed to characterize patient reported outcomes in older patients following definitive radiation thera...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:150
Published on: 9 September 2017
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The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of tumor characteristics and parameters of treatment response in predicting biochemical disease-free survival (BFS) for patients with intermediate or high ris...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:149
Published on: 7 September 2017
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Hypoxic cancer cells are thought to be radioresistant and could impact local recurrence after radiotherapy (RT). One of the major hypoxic imaging modalities is [18F]fluoromisonidazole positron emission tomography...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:148
Published on: 6 September 2017
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To compare target volume delineation of anal cancer using positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with respect to inter-observer and inter-modality variability.
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:147
Published on: 6 September 2017
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Neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy following surgery has recently become a standard therapy. The purpose of the present study was to determine the effectiveness and toxicity of re-irradiation for oligo-recurrence i...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:146
Published on: 5 September 2017
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The purpose of this study is to introduce the new concept of a four-dimensional (4D) cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) reconstruction approach for non-periodic organ motion in cooperation with the time-orde...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:145
Published on: 4 September 2017
Research
Lung cancer is frequently complicated by interstitial lung disease (ILD). Treatment protocols for lung cancer patients with ILD have not been established; surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy can all cause ...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:144
Published on: 2 September 2017
Short report
Imaging of bone metastasis response to therapy is a research priority. Stradwin is a new software-tool, with demonstrated sub-voxel accuracy in assessing cortical bone properties from routine CT. We applied th...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:143
Published on: 30 August 2017
Review
Radiation-induced pneumonitis and fibrosis represent severe and dose-limiting side effects in the radiotherapy of thorax-associated neoplasms leading to decreased quality of life or - as a consequence of treat...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:142
Published on: 24 August 2017
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To investigate the clinical value of preoperative and postoperative radiotherapy (RT) in patients with rectal signet-ring cell carcinoma (SRCC).
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:141
Published on: 23 August 2017
Research
By the use of PSMA positron emission tomography (PET) detection of prostate cancer lesions with a high sensitivity and specificity combined with a favorable lesion to background contrast is feasible. Therefore...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:140
Published on: 23 August 2017
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Preoperative radiotherapy (RT) in combination with fluoropyrimidine-based chemotherapy (CT) is the standard of care in patients with locally advanced, T3-T4 N0–2, rectal cancer (LARC). Given the correlation be...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:139
Published on: 22 August 2017
Research
Level IB metastasis is rare in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). The purpose of this study is to investigate the high-risk factors for level IB metastasis and evaluate the feasibility of omission of elective irr...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:137
Published on: 18 August 2017
Study protocol
For prostate cancer treatment, treatment options with minimal side effects are desired. External beam radiation therapy (EBRT) is non-invasive, standard of care and delivered in either conventional fractionati...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:138
Published on: 18 August 2017
Research
As irradiated brain volume at 12 Gy (V12) is a predictor for radionecrosis, the purpose of the study was to develop a model for Cyberknife (CK) plans that is able to predict the lowest achievable V12 at a give...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:136
Published on: 17 August 2017
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To explore the methods of clinical classification in chronic radiation-induced ulcers in the chest wall (CRUCWs).
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:135
Published on: 15 August 2017
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To cover the microscopic tumor spread in squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus (SCC), longitudinal margins of 3–4 cm are used for radiotherapy (RT) protocols. However, smaller margins of 2–3 cm might be rea...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:128
Published on: 15 August 2017
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Concurrent chemoradiation therapy (CCRT) followed by hepatic arterial infusional chemotherapy (HAIC) was reported to be effective for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) with portal vein thrombosis. Howeve...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:133
Published on: 15 August 2017
Research
Gamma Knife radiosurgery (GKRS) is an important part of the neurosurgical armamentarium in the treatment of acoustic neuromas. However, the treatment outcome related to the morphology of the tumor has not been...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:134
Published on: 15 August 2017
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Though the vast majority of seminal trials for locally advanced esophageal cancer (EC) utilized three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT), the advanced and highly conformal technology known as intensity...
Radiation Oncology 2017 12:131
Published on: 15 August 2017
