Focal, high dose, and fractionated modified stereotactic radiation therapy for lung carcinoma patients: A preliminary experience

Cancer

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1062-1070

  Uematsu, Minoru ^a   Shioda, Akira ^a   Tahara, Kazuhiko ^a   Fukui, Toshiharu ^a   Yamamoto, Fuyumi ^a   Tsumatori, Gentaro ^a   Ozeki, Yuichi ^a   Aoki, Teruhiro ^a   Watanabe, Masazumi ^a   Kusano, Shoichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extracranial; Focal; Fractionated; High dose; Lung carcinoma; Radiation therapy; Stereotactic; Treatment unit

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINEAR ACCELERATOR; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; STEREOTAXIS; TECHNIQUE;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOSURGERY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 0032521265     PISSN: 0008543X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980315)82:6<1062::AID-CNCR8>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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