external beam radiation.
Leaflet manual of external beam radiation therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: a review of the indications, evidences, and clinical trials
... Liver cancer is a “silent killer” that is asymptomatic until significant disease progression. Therefore, it is not uncom- mon for patients to present with large tumors or major vas- cular invasion at diagnosis. The ...
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A new method for ideal dose distribution of two adjacent fields for external beam radiation therapy
... in external beam radiation therapy, such as mantle and inverted-Y fields for the treatment of Hodgkin’s disease and craniospinal fields used in the treatment of medulloblas- toma and head and neck ...
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Study on the Role of Gold Nanoparticles on External Beam Radiation Using Fricke Gel
... for radiation therapy using a LINAC, the radiation oncologist will collaborate with a radiation dosimetrist and a medical physicist to develop a treatment plan for the ...for external ...
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Overall Quality of Life Assessment in the Patients Undergoing External Beam Radiation in Outpatient Radiation Oncology Department.
... undergoing external beam radiation as an outpatient at Allan Blair Cancer Center, Regina, ...of external beam radiation and questionnaires were filled by the ...
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An overview of current practice in external beam radiation oncology with consideration to potential benefits and challenges for nanotechnology
... Magnetic resonance imaging is an alternative imaging modality used regularly in oncol- ogy diagnostic examinations as it is capable of generating 3D anatomical informa- tion with superior soft tissue contrast compared to ...
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<sup>125</sup>I seed brachytherapy versus external beam radiation therapy for the palliation of painful bone metastases of lung cancer after one cycle of chemotherapy progression
... and radiation physicist determined the target region and dose based on the obtained CT ...expansion external to ...expansion external to the ...
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Outcome of External Beam Radiation in Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: A 10-year Experience
... Radiation technique was varied based on availability at that time and physician preference – i.e. conventional radiotherapy, three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT), intensity-modulated radiotherapy ...
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<p>Comparison Of Accelerated Partial Breast Radiation Therapy And External Beam Radiation Therapy By Treatment Planning Indices</p>
... (b) APBI: To reach the optimum dose distribution, beam parameters like gantry and collimator angles and beam weight were changed and modi fi ed con- tinuously. Two tangent fi elds were used to envelop ...
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Orthogonal versus image guided brachytherapy in carcinoma cervix: A comparitive dosimetric study based on the response to external beam radiation
... The cochrane review done on LDR versus HDR brachytherapy showed that both the modalities were similar in outcomes ,however,due to some potential advantages of HDR-ICBT, such as rigid immobilization, outpatient ...
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Lifetime cost-effectiveness analysis of intraoperative radiation therapy versus external beam radiation therapy for early stage breast cancer
... All women were initially treated with breast conserving surgery (BCS) and followed by either IORT or 6 weeks of EBRT [18]. Acute post surgery and radiation complica- tion rates were evaluated based on prior ...
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Hypofractionated external-beam radiation therapy (HEBRT) versus conventional external-beam radiation (CEBRT) in patients with localized prostate cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
... Overall, 171 references were identified and screened. Twenty studies were selected and retrieved for full-text analysis. Of these, 11 were excluded for various reasons, as described in the additional material presented ...
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Benefits, risks, and safety of external beam radiation therapy for breast cancer
... Although radiation provides significant benefit to many women with breast cancer, it is also associated with risks of toxicity, including cardiac and pulmonary toxicity, lymphedema, and secondary ...of ...
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Short-term outcomes of the surgical management of acquired rectourethral fistulas: does technique matter?
... Results: Fistula repair was performed on 22 patients from 1999 to 2009. All the patients were male of an average age of 69 years (range: 39–82 years). All patients, except one, had prostate cancer. Fistula formation was ...
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Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy as a Boost Treatment after Prostate Seed Implant: A Treatment Planning Study
... with External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT) remains as an attractive option for patients with intermediate or high-risk prostate ...use external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) to ...
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The relationship between cancer patient's fear of recurrence and radiotherapy : a systematic review and meta analysis
... – external to the body by a machine (external-beam radiation treatment, RT) or within the body by judicious siting of radioactive material (brachytherapy, ...
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Brachytherapy in the treatment of cervical cancer: a review
... definitive radiation treatment will have a planning CT simu- lation prior to the start of their ...the external beam radiation field adequately encompasses the most distal extent of ...
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Will High Dose Rate Interstitial Brachytherapy Be a Surrogate to Surgery in Early Mobile Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Tongue—An Indian Experience
... Conclusion Though surgery is preferred over radiotherapy in early tongue lesions, still brachytherapy with or without external beam radiation can be a surrogate to surgery in early oral [r] ...
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2082.pdf
... surveillance, external beam radiation therapy with 3D conformal radiation therapy or intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), brachytherapy with permanent seed implantation or with ...
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Interdisciplinary decision making in prostate cancer therapy – 5-years’ time trends at the Interdisciplinary Prostate Cancer Center (IPC) of the Charité Berlin
... analysed. The patients presenting for consultation had to a great extent newly diagnosed, localised prostate cancer. The majority of patients was diagnosed pre-clinically by registered urologists and was then presented ...
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Vaginal cuff brachytherapy in endometrial cancer – a technically easy treatment?
... a decrease in local relapses with postoperative radiotherapy, either external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) or vaginal cuff brachytherapy (VCB), but results have not translated to a sur- vival advantage. ...
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