Feasibility of tomotherapy to reduce normal lung and cardiac toxicity for distal esophageal cancer compared to three-dimensional radiotherapy

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 101, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 438-442

  Nguyen, Nam P ^d   Krafft, Shane P ^d   Vinh Hung, Vincent ^a   Vos, Paul ^b,c   Almeida, Fabio ^d   Jang, Siyoung ^d   Ceizyk, Misty ^d   Desai, Anand ^d   Davis, Rick ^d   Hamilton, Russ ^d   Modarresifar, Homayoun ^c   Abraham, Dave ^d   Smith Raymond, Lexie ^d  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distal esophageal cancer; Normal tissue sparing; Tomotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CARDIOTOXICITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; DOSIMETRY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; LUNG; LUNG TOXICITY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL CORD; STOMACH CANCER; TOMOTHERAPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ESOPHAGEAL NEOPLASMS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, CONFORMAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL CORD;

EID: 81855201809     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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