Early clinical experience with volumetric modulated arc therapy in head and neck cancer patients

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Scorsetti, Marta ^a   Fogliata, Antonella ^b   Castiglioni, Simona ^a   Bressi, Caterina ^a   Bignardi, Mario ^a   Navarria, Piera ^a   Mancosu, Pietro ^a   Cozzi, Luca ^b   Pentimalli, Sara ^a   Alongi, Filippo ^a   Santoro, Armando ^a  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DERMATITIS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; GENERAL CONDITION DETERIORATION; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK TUMOR; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 77957889129     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-93     Document Type: Article

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