نتایج جستجو برای: external beam radiotherapy

تعداد نتایج: 351412  

2003
ERVIN B. PODGORSAK

Radiotherapy procedures fall into two main categories: external beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy. In external beam radiotherapy the radiation source is at a certain distance from the patient and the target within the patient is irradiated with an external radiation beam. In brachytherapy (see Chapter 13) radiation sources are placed directly into the target volume (intracavitary or interstit...

Journal: :The Lancet 2010
Jayant S Vaidya David J Joseph Jeffrey S Tobias Max Bulsara Frederik Wenz Christobel Saunders Michael Alvarado Henrik L Flyger Samuele Massarut Wolfgang Eiermann Mohammed Keshtgar John Dewar Uta Kraus-Tiefenbacher Marc Sütterlin Laura Esserman Helle MR Holtveg Mario Roncadin Steffi Pigorsch Marinos Metaxas Mary Falzon April Matthews Tammy Corica Norman R Williams Michael Baum

BACKGROUND After breast-conserving surgery, 90% of local recurrences occur within the index quadrant despite the presence of multicentric cancers elsewhere in the breast. Thus, restriction of radiation therapy to the tumour bed during surgery might be adequate for selected patients. We compared targeted intraoperative radiotherapy with the conventional policy of whole breast external beam radio...

A. Kazemian, A. Rastjoo, A.S. Meigooni, F. Pakniyat, M. Esfahani, P. Haddad, R. Ghalehtaki, S. Gholami, S. Tajiki,

In the present study, a case was reported concerning a patient with a bulky extremity soft tissue sarcoma treated with spatially fractionated Grid therapy and then followed by standard external beam radiotherapy. Treatment was performed using a Grid block to deliver 15 Gy in one fraction. There was one week interval break before EBRT treatment with 50 Gy in 25 fractions for the neoadjuvant exte...

Journal: :Current oncology 2010
C Freeman H Lamed C Gingras G Shenouda

Canadian law, and the physician's code of ethics, requires that informed consent be obtained before any medical act is performed. However, there are no rules about how consent is to be obtained and by whom, and how that consent is to be documented.In April 2008, we asked the heads of all Canadian radiation oncology departments to tell us whether their centre uses a written consent form for exte...

Journal: :Tumori 2007
Renata Soumarová Lubos Homola Hana Perková Miroslav Stursa

AIMS AND BACKGROUND Radiotherapy represents one of the basic therapeutic methods in treatment of localized carcinoma of the prostate. Optimal irradiation dose is the cornerstone of a successful treatment. Along with local control of the disease and overall survival of the patient, possible acute and long-term side effects need to be monitored very closely. METHODS A non-randomized prospective...

Journal: :Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2004
Arnold L Potosky William W Davis Richard M Hoffman Janet L Stanford Robert A Stephenson David F Penson Linda C Harlan

BACKGROUND Men treated for clinically localized prostate cancer with either radical prostatectomy or external beam radiotherapy usually survive many years with the side effects of these treatments. We present treatment-specific quality-of-life outcomes for prostate cancer patients 5 years after initial diagnosis. METHODS The cohort consisted of men aged 55-74 years who were newly diagnosed wi...

Journal: :basic and clinical cancer research 0
manuchehr sardari radiation oncology department, cancer institute, tehran university of medical sciences saeed karimkhani radiation oncology department, cancer institute, tehran university of medical sciences bita kalaghchi radiation oncology department, cancer institute, tehran university of medical sciences farnaz amouzegar hashemi radiation oncology department, cancer institute, tehran university of medical sciences ali kazemian radiation oncology department, cancer institute, tehran university of medical sciences

background: in this study we evaluated the incidence of hypothyroidism in patients who received external beam radiation due to cancer, when radiation portals included thyroid gland. methods: this prospective study was conducted from april 2004 to december 2005 among patients with head and neck or breast malignancies who referred to radiation oncology department of cancer institute, imam khomein...

Journal: :Radiotherapy and Oncology 2016

Journal: :American Journal of Roentgenology 1998

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