Elective lymph node irradiation with intensity-modulated radiotherapy: Is conventional dose fractionation necessary?

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Bedi, Meena ^a   Firat, Selim ^a   Semenenko, Vladimir A ^a   Schultz, Christopher ^a   Tripp, Patrick ^a   Byhardt, Roger ^a   Wang, Dian ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Hypofractionation; IMRT; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

CONCURRENT CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; DOSE FRACTIONATION; HEAD-AND-NECK CANCER; HYPOFRACTIONATION; HYPOPHARYNX; IMRT; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY; LOCAL RECURRENCE; LYMPH NODE; ORAL CAVITY; OROPHARYNX; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATTERNS OF FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOMES; WEIGHT LOSS;

CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASES; RADIOTHERAPY; TUBES (COMPONENTS); TUMORS;

PHYSICAL THERAPY;

CARBOPLATIN; CETUXIMAB; CISPLATIN; PACLITAXEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RECURRENCE; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISTANT METASTASIS; DOSIMETRY; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LARYNX CANCER; LYMPH NODE IRRADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; DOSE FRACTIONATION; ENTERAL NUTRITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84859853667     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: 1879355X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2011.12.016     Document Type: Article

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