Incorporating biologic measurements (SF2, CFE) into a tumor control probability model increases their prognostic significance: A study in cervical carcinoma treated with radiation therapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1113-1122

  Buffa, Francesca Meteora ^a,c   Davidson, Susan E ^b   Hunter, Robert D ^b   Nahum, Alan E ^a   West, Catharine M L ^b  

^a NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

^b CHRISTIE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Predictive assays; Radiobiologic models; Radiosensitivity; SF2; Tumor control probability

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY; RADIATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TUMORS;

COLONY-FORMING EFFICIENCY CFE);

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CELL DENSITY; CLONOGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RADIATION DOSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME; TUMOR VOLUME; UTERINE CERVIX CARCINOMA;

CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CELL SURVIVAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TUMOR STEM CELL ASSAY; TUMOR STEM CELLS; UTERINE CERVICAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0035424796     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(01)01584-X     Document Type: Article

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