A clinical concept for interfractional adaptive radiation therapy in the treatment of head and neck cancer

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 590-596

  Jensen, Alexandra D ^a   Nill, Simeon ^b   Huber, Peter E ^b   Bendl, Rolf ^b   Debus, Jürgen ^a   Münter, Marc W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive RT; Head and neck cancer; IGRT; IMRT

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION THERAPIES; ADAPTIVE RT; ANATOMICAL CHANGES; CLINICAL ROUTINE; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; HEAD-AND-NECK TUMOR; HIGH QUALITY; HIGH-PRECISION; IGRT; IMRT; INITIAL OPTIMIZATION; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LYMPH NODE; MEDIAN WEIGHT; ONLINE CORRECTION METHOD; RE-PLANNING; REOPTIMIZATION; TARGET COVERAGE; TARGET VOLUMES; TREATMENT BREAK; TREATMENT PLANS; VOLUME LOSS; WEIGHT LOSS;

CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASES; NUTRITION; OPTIMIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING; POSITION CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER LOCALIZATION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PAROTID GLAND; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; TREATMENT PLANNING; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARBOPLATIN; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CISPLATIN; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; ORGAN SPARING TREATMENTS; ORGANS AT RISK; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PAROTID GLAND; PATIENT POSITIONING; RADIOIMMUNOTHERAPY; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84855838268     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2010.10.072     Document Type: Article

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