EBRT: External beam radiotherapy CCRT: Concomitant chemoradiotherapy BT: Brachytherapy LACC: Locally advanced cervical cancers LC: Local control OS: Overall survival IGABT: Image-guided adaptive BT IMRT: Intensity-modulated radiation therapy VMAT: Volumetric Arc Therapy PTV: Planning target ...
Breast conserving treatment cN0: Clinically node negative CT: Computed tomography CTCAE: Common terminology criteria for adverse events CTV: Clinical target volume DCIS: Ductal carcinoma in situ DFS: Disease-free survival EBRT: External beam radiation therapy ECOG: Eastern cooperative oncology...
The use of SBRT is becoming a viable alternative with preliminary clinical trials and single institutions reporting equal or superior biochemical recurrence rates to the traditional forms of external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) and radical prostatectomy [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11]. However, ...
Here, we review the current role of SBRT and the scope of pre-clinical armamentarium at our disposal to improve the successful clinical translation of pre-clinical research in the radiation oncology of NSCLC. 2. Place of SBRT in the Treatment of NSCLC The fundamental difference between SBRT and...
magnetic resonance-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy (MRgSBRT); high-risk prostate cancer (HR-PC); whole-pelvic radiotherapy (WPRT); toxicity; quality of life (QoL)1. Introduction Prostate cancer (PC) is the second most common type of cancer in men. There were 1,276,106 new PC ...
Patients affected by clinically localized PCa with an intermediate- and high-risk disease, according to National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines, can be considered eligible for several local treatment modalities, including external-beam radiotherapy (EBRT) or brachytherapy ± androgen ...