Long-term experience with reduced planning target volume margins and intensity-modulated radiotherapy with daily image-guidance for head and neck cancer

Head and Neck

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1766-1772

  Chen, Allen M ^a,b   Yu, Yao ^a   Daly, Megan E ^a   Farwell, D Gregory ^a   Benedict, Stanley H ^a   Purdy, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Head and neck cancer; Image guided radiotherapy; Intensity modulated radiotherapy; Marginal misses; Planning target volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; DISEASE CONTROL; DYSPHAGIA; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; ESOPHAGUS STENOSIS; EXTERNAL OTITIS; FEMALE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; KERATITIS; LARYNX EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUCOSA INFLAMMATION; NECK CANCER; ODYNOPHAGIA; OVERALL SURVIVAL; RADIATION INJURY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STOMACH TUBE; TARGET ORGAN; TREATMENT PLANNING; WORK EXPERIENCE; XEROSTOMIA; AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED RADIOTHERAPY; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; IMAGE GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR RECURRENCE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, IMAGE-GUIDED; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84912029750     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: 10970347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23532     Document Type: Article

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