Radiotherapy for the future

British Medical Journal

Volumn 330, Issue 7498, 2005, Pages 979-980

  Jones, Bleddyn ^a   Burnet, Neil ^b  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ION; PROTON;

ABDOMINAL CANCER; ACCURACY; ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVAL; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATION; CHORDOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DNA DAMAGE; DOSIMETRY; EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; GAS DIFFUSION; GEOMETRY; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; IONIZATION; LIVER CANCER; LUNG CANCER; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MENINGIOMA; METAL IMPLANTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORBIT CANCER; PELVIS CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIATION DOSE; RECTUM CANCER; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR; UNITED KINGDOM; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; VITAL CAPACITY; X RAY; FORECASTING; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; RADIOTHERAPY;

CARBON; FORECASTING; HUMANS; IONS; NEOPLASMS; PROTONS; RADIOTHERAPY;

EID: 18044373887     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.979     Document Type: Editorial

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