Prospective randomized double-blind pilot study of site-specific consensus atlas implementation for rectal cancer target volume delineation in the cooperative group setting

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 481-489

  Fuller, Clifton D ^a,b,c   Nijkamp, Jasper ^d   Duppen, Joop C ^d   Rasch, Coen R N ^d   Thomas Jr , Charles R ^c   Wang, Samuel J ^c   Okunieff, Paul ^e   Jones III, William E ^a   Baseman, Daniel ^a   Patel, Shilpen ^f   Demandante, Carlo G N ^a,g   Harris, Anna M ^a   Smith, Benjamin D ^h,i   Katz, Alan W ^e   McGann, Camille ⁱ   Harper, Jennifer L ^j   Chang, Daniel T ^k   Smalley, Stephen ^l   Marshall, David T ^j   Goodman, Karyn A ^m   Papanikolaou, Niko ^a,b   Kachnic, Lisa A ⁿ   more..

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NETHERLANDS CANCER INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^g WILFORD HALL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ BROOKE ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^k STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

Atlas; Conformal radiotherapy; Consensus guideline; Cooperative group; Target volume delineation

Indexed keywords

ATLAS; CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY; CONSENSUS GUIDELINE; COOPERATIVE GROUPS; TARGET VOLUME DELINEATION;

DISEASES; EXPERIMENTS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM CANCER; TUMOR VOLUME;

DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; OBSERVER VARIATION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIATION ONCOLOGY; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; TUMOR BURDEN;

EID: 78650838231     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2009.11.012     Document Type: Article

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