Time trends in organ position and volume in patients receiving prostate three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 261-265

  Mechalakos, James G ^a   Mageras, Gikas S ^a   Zelefsky, Michael J ^a   Lyass, Olga ^a   Van Herk, Marcel ^b   Kooy, Hanne M ^c   Leibel, Steven A ^a   Ling, C Clifton ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hormone therapy; Organ motion; Prostate; Time trend

Indexed keywords

HORMONE;

ARTICLE; BLADDER CAPACITY; BODY POSTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; INTESTINE MOTILITY; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; RECTUM; SEMINAL VESICLE; TIME;

ANDROGEN ANTAGONISTS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; PRONE POSITION; PROSTATE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TIME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 0036223480     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8140(01)00466-2     Document Type: Article

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