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TherapyOncologyGroup (RTOG) recently completed a prospective phase 2 study of 5-FU, MMC, and IMRT for anal cancer to determine the treatment-related toxicity and disease-related outcomes, and the results will soon be published. Currently, many centers have transitioned to using IMRT when possible...
“I’m happy I chose Southeast Radiation Oncology Center for my treatment. The staff and facility exceeded my expectations! So glad to be close to home!” Juneau patient, August 2017 “It truly was a pleasure working with this professional staff! Thanks for helping me, answering all my quest...
Its cancer unit, managed by Aptium Oncology, a unit of one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, AstraZeneca, was marketing a new linear accelerator as though it had Mr. Jerome-Parks specifically in mind. Its big selling point was so-called smart-beam technology. "When the C.F...
More than 7000 patients under 21 years of age treated in 5 French centers between 1945 and 2000 for solid cancer or lymphoma composed this cohort. With the goal to develop a deep learning model for out-of-field dose estimation suitable for high-energy photon irradiation, the following ...
To summarize the research activities of the “clinical research group heavy ion therapy”, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, KFO 214), on the impact of intrinsic tumor characteristics (grading, hypoxia) on local tumor control after carbon (1
I have been having chemotherapy treatment since 2016 September and it’s working for me. Now my Oncology is saying to me she will like to stop working with me. I’m happy to work with a new Doctor. Please advise me .they said from the MRI there are more shadows in the scan. Lump ...
In 5 centers, all cases must be reviewed at a multidisciplinary conference prior to radiosurgery treatment. Such conferences included representation by medical oncology, radiation oncology, and neurosurgery. At 3 centers, neurosurgeons are not required to be involved in cases in which there is no ev...
Preliminary very encouraging clinical results of intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) in Head Neck Cancer (HNC) are available from several large centers. Tumor control rates seem to be kept at least at the level of conventional three-dimensional radiation therapy; the benefit of normal tissue...
GeorgeStarkschall, ...RadheMohan, inRadiation Oncology (Ninth Edition), 2010 Shaping Proton Dose Distributions To create a dose distribution that conforms to the shape of the target, the spread-out Bragg peak of the passively scattered beam is further shaped lateral to the beam by using afield...