Neo-adjuvant chemo-radiation of rectal cancer with Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy: Summary of technical and dosimetric features and early clinical experience

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Richetti, Antonella ^a   Fogliata, Antonella ^a   Clivio, Alessandro ^a   Nicolini, Giorgia ^a   Pesce, Gianfranco ^a   Salati, Emanuela ^a   Vanetti, Eugenio ^a   Cozzi, Luca ^a  

^a ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPECITABINE; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DEOXYCYTIDINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; FLUOROURACIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER ADJUVANT THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DOSIMETRY; DYSURIA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEMUR; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; MALE; PHOTON THERAPY; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RECTUM CANCER; RECTUM CARCINOMA; ADJUVANT THERAPY; CARCINOMA; CLINICAL TRIAL; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RADIOMETRY; RECTUM TUMOR;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA; DEOXYCYTIDINE; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOMETRY; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77649299397     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-14     Document Type: Article

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