Quality control of involved-field radiotherapy for patients with early stage Hodgkin's lymphoma based on a central prospective review: Comparison of the results between two study generations of the German Hodgkin Study Group

Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Volumn 188, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 660-665

  Kriz, J ^a   Bangard, C ^b   Haverkamp, U ^a   Bongartz, R ^b   Baues, C ^b   Engert, A ^b   Mueller, R P ^a   Eich, H T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disease management; Hodgkin's lymphoma; Quality control; Radiotherapy

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; DACARBAZINE; DOXORUBICIN; ETOPOSIDE; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; VINBLASTINE; VINCRISTINE;

CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CLAVICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERMANY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINUM; MEDIASTINUM CANCER; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW;

ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC IRRADIATION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864585888     PISSN: 01797158     EISSN: 1439099X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00066-012-0103-6     Document Type: Review

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