Estimation of risk of radiation-induced carcinogenesis in adolescents with nasopharyngeal cancer treated using sliding window IMRT

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 177-181

  Sharma, Shamurailatpam Dayananda ^a   Upreti, Ritu Raj ^a   Laskar, Siddhartha ^a   Tambe, Chandrashekhar M ^a   Deshpande, Deepak D ^a   Shrivastava, Shyam K ^a   Dinshaw, Ketayun A ^a  

^a TATA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Peripheral dose; Second malignancy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOSIMETRY; FEMALE; GONAD; HUMAN; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; STERNUM; THERMOLUMINESCENCE DOSIMETER; UMBILICUS; WHOLE BODY RADIATION;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASMS, SECOND PRIMARY; RADIATION INJURIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; THERMOLUMINESCENT DOSIMETRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WHOLE-BODY IRRADIATION;

EID: 39149141548     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2007.11.019     Document Type: Article

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