Characterisation of rectal motion during neo-adjuvant radiochemotherapy for rectal cancer with image-guided tomotherapy: Implications for adaptive dose escalation strategies

Acta Oncologica

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 318-324

  Maggiulli, Eleonora ^a   Fiorino, Claudio ^a   Passoni, Paolo ^a   Broggi, Sara ^a   Gianolini, Stefano ^b   Salvetti, Cristina ^a   Slim, Najla ^a   Di Muzio, Nadia G ^a   Calandrino, Riccardo ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Medical Software Solutions GmbH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUOROURACIL; OXALIPLATIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RECTAL MOTION; RECTUM CANCER; TOMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADENOCARCINOMA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMORADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; NEOPLASM STAGING; ORGANOPLATINUM COMPOUNDS; PROGNOSIS; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; RECTUM; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859754018     PISSN: 0284186X     EISSN: 1651226X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/0284186X.2012.666358     Document Type: Article

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