Beware the Swing and a Miss: Baseball Precautions for Conformal Radiotherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 657-659

  Harari, Paul M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; IMRT; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Salivary gland; Tumor recurrence; Xerostomia

Indexed keywords

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; EDITORIAL; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METASTASIS; PAROTID GLAND; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SALIVARY GLAND; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR CELL; XEROSTOMIA;

BASEBALL; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; METAPHOR; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; XEROSTOMIA;

EID: 38849185346     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2007.10.065     Document Type: Editorial

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