Does Incidental Irradiation With Doses Below 50 Gy Effectively Reduce Isolated Nodal Failures in Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: Dose-Response Relationship

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1391-1396

  Kepka, Lucyna ^a   Maciejewski, BogusŁaw ^b   Withers, Rodney H ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dose response relationship; Incidental irradiation; Isolated nodal recurrence

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; BODY FLUIDS; IRRADIATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

DOSE LEVELS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; FRACTIONATION SCHEDULES; INCIDENTAL IRRADIATION; ISOLATED NODAL RECURRENCE; LYMPH NODES; NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG CANCERS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPIES; TUMOR DOSE;

RADIATION;

CISPLATIN;

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER RECURRENCE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DOSIMETRY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; IRRADIATION; ISOLATED NODAL RECURRENCE; LUNG HILUS; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADENOCARCINOMA; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDIASTINUM; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 62649101894     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2008.07.070     Document Type: Article

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