Is involved-field radiotherapy based on CT safe for patients with limited-stage small-cell lung cancer?

Radiotherapy and Oncology

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 258-262

  Xia, Bing ^a,b,c   Chen, Gui Yuan ^a,b   Cai, Xu Wei ^a,b   Zhao, Jian Dong ^a,b   Yang, Huan Jun ^a,b   Fan, Min ^a,b   Zhao, Kuai Le ^a,b   Fu, Xiao Long ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY SHANGHAI CANCER CENTER   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c ZHEJIANG CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Involved field; Isolated nodal failure; Radiation therapy; Small cell lung cancer

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISTANT METASTASIS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT SAFETY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSION FREE SURVIVAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; ORGANS AT RISK; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 84857634683     PISSN: 01678140     EISSN: 18790887     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.radonc.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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