Acute small bowel toxicity and preoperative chemoradiotherapy for rectal cancer: Investigating dose-volume relationships and role for inverse planning

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 505-513

  Tho, Lye Mun ^a   Glegg, Martin ^a   Paterson, Jennifer ^a   Yap, Christina ^b   MacLeod, Alice ^a   McCabe, Marie ^a   McDonald, Alexander C ^a  

^a BEATSON WEST OF SCOTLAND CANCER CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dose volume relationship; Inverse planning; Normal tissue complication probability; Rectal cancer; Small bowel toxicity

Indexed keywords

CHEMOTHERAPY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; RADIOTHERAPY;

DOSE-VOLUME RELATIONSHIP; INVERSE PLANNING; NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITY; RECTAL CANCER; SMALL BOWEL TOXICITY;

TOXICITY;

FLUOROURACIL; FOLINIC ACID;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSE VOLUME RELATIONSHIP; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL TOXICITY; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTESTINE INJURY; INVERSE PLANNING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NAUSEA; NORMAL TISSUE COMPLICATION PROBABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION FIELD; RECTUM CANCER; RISK FACTOR; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR VOLUME; VOMITING;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIARRHEA; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; INTESTINE, SMALL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; URINARY BLADDER;

EID: 33748300532     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.05.005     Document Type: Article

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