Dosimetric correlates for acute esophagitis in patients treated with radiotherapy for lung carcinoma

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1106-1113

  Bradley, Jeffrey ^a,c   Deasy, Joseph O ^a   Bentzen, Soeren ^b   El Naqa, Issam ^a  

^a MO   (United States)

^b Group for Biostatistics in Oncology   (United Kingdom)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute esophagitis; Chemoradiotherapy; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; IRRADIATION; PATIENT TREATMENT; STATISTICAL METHODS; TUMORS;

THRESHOLD DOSE;

DOSIMETRY;

CARBOPLATIN; CISPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; ETOPOSIDE; GEMCITABINE; NAVELBINE; PACLITAXEL; VINBLASTINE SULFATE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CRICOID; DEATH; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSIMETRY; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PARAMETER; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; ESOPHAGITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION INJURIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 1542376214     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2003.09.080     Document Type: Article

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