Protons safely allow coverage of high-risk nodes for patients with regionally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer

Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 317-322

  Nichols, R C ^a   Huh, S H ^a   Hoppe, B S ^a   Henderson, R H ^a   Li, Z ^a   Flampouri, S ^a   D'Agostino, H J ^b   Cury, J D ^b   Pham, D C ^b   Mendenhall, N P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Elective nodal irradiation; Non small cell lung cancer; Normal tissue sparing; Proton therapy

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CANCER; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY; FOUR DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROTON THERAPY; RADIATION DOSE; TREATMENT PLANNING; X RAY;

EID: 80053281931     PISSN: 15330346     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7785/tcrt.2012.500208     Document Type: Article

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