Intensity-modulated radiation therapy for the treatment of pediatric cancer patients

Nature Clinical Practice Oncology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 211-217

  Rembielak, Agata ^b   Woo, Tony Choon Seng ^a  

^a SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Childhood cancers; Dose; IMRT; Pediatric oncology; Side effects

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARCINOGENESIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DOSIMETRY; EPISTAXIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GROWTH RETARDATION; HAIR LOSS; HEADACHE; HEARING LOSS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFECTION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY FAILURE; LARYNX SPASM; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIOTHERAPY; REPRODUCTIVE TOXICITY; REVIEW; RHINITIS; SECOND CANCER; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SOMNOLENCE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CHILD; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL;

EID: 20444507607     PISSN: 17434254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncponc0139     Document Type: Review

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