Conformal radiotherapy for lung cancer: Interobservers' variability in the definition of gross tumor volume between radiologists and radiotherapists

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Tyng, Chiang J ^a   Chojniak, Rubens ^a   Pinto, Paula N V ^a   Borba, Marcelle A ^a   Bitencourt, Almir G V ^a   Fogaroli, Ricardo C ^a   Castro, Douglas G ^a   Novaes, Paulo E ^a  

^a A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PARAMEDICAL PROFESSION; RADIOLOGIST; RADIOTHERAPIST; TUMOR VOLUME; CANCER STAGING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LUNG TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; ONCOLOGY; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSICIAN; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSICIANS; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69349085844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-4-28     Document Type: Article

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