Large volume unresectable locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer: Acute toxicity and initial outcome results with rapid arc

Radiation Oncology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Scorsetti, Marta ^a   Navarria, Pierina ^a   Mancosu, Pietro ^a   Alongi, Filippo ^a   Castiglioni, Simona ^a   Cavina, Raffaele ^a   Cozzi, Luca ^b   Fogliata, Antonella ^b   Pentimalli, Sara ^a   Tozzi, Angelo ^a   Santoro, Armando ^b  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b ONCOLOGY INSTITUTE OF SOUTHERN SWITZERLAND   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE TOXICITY; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER REGRESSION; CANCER SIZE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOSIMETRY; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INOPERABLE CANCER; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; MALE; PHOTON THERAPY; PNEUMONIA; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANS AT RISK; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 77957926151     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1748717X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-5-94     Document Type: Article

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