The efficiency and tolerance of half-body irradiation (HBI) in patients with multiple metastases: The Krakow experience

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 177, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 482-486

  Skolyszewski, Jan ^a   Sas Korczynska, Beata ^a   Korzeniowski, Stanislaw ^a   Reinfuss, Marian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Half body irradiation (HBI); Multiple cancer metastases; Palliative radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER PAIN; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER METASTASIS; LUNG METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROSTATE CANCER; RADIATION DOSE;

EID: 0034819540     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00002430     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Half body irradiation
2. Hemibody irradiation in lymphomas and related malignancies
3. Preliminary report on "one-time" and high dose irradiation of the upper and tower half-body in patients with small cell lung cancer
4. Half and total body radiation for carcinoma of the prostate
5. Sequential half-body irradiation (SHBI) and combination chemotherapy as salvage treatment for failed Ewing's sarcoma - A pilot study
6. The radiation pneumonitis syndrome in half-body radiation therapy
7. Radiation pneumonitis: Experience following a large single dose of radiation
8. Sequential hemi-body irradiation (HBI) in treatment of advanced neuroblastoma: A pilot study
9. SingLe-dose radiotherapy for painful bone metastases
10. Palliative radiotherapy of bone metastases. A retrospective analysis of 176 patients
11. Remineralization and pain relief in bone metastases after different radiotherapy fractions (10 times 3 Gy vs 1 time 8 Gy). A prospective study
12. Sequential half-body irradiation as systemic treatment of progressive Ewing sarcoma
13. Sequential hemi-body radiotherapy in poor prognosis localised adenocarcinoma of the prostate gland: A preliminary study of the RTOG
14. Impact of nicotinamide on human tumor hypoxic fraction measured using the comet assay
15. Role of radiotherapy in the treatment of multiple myeloma
16. Bone metastases: Pathophysiology and management policy
17. Upper half body irradiation (UHBI) for extensive small cell carcinoma of the lung
18. A report of RTOG 8206: A phase II study of whether the addition of single dose hemibody irradiation to standard fractionated local field irradiation is more effective than local field irradiation alone in the treatment of symptomatic osseous metastases
19. Systemic hemibody irradiation for overt and occult metastases
20. Half-body and local chest irradiation as consolidation following response to standard induction chemotherapy for disseminated small cell lung cancer: An Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Pilot Report
21. Fractionated half-body irradiation for pain palliation in widely metastatic cancers: Comparison with single dose
22. Single-dose half-body irradiation for palliation of multiple bone metastases from solid tumors. Final Radiation Therapy Oncology Group Report
23. Theoretical and practical uses of elective systemic (half-body) irradiation after 20 years of experimental designs
24. Total (half-body) systemic irradiation for occult metastases in non-small cell lung cancer: An Easrerb Cooperative Oncology Group Pilot Report
25. A phase I/II study to evaluate the effect of fractionated hemibody irradiation in the treatment of osseous metastases - RTOG 88-22
26. Radiation pneumonitis following large single dose irradiation: A re-evaluation base on absolute dose to lung