external-beam radiation therapy
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 ...
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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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<p>Comparison Of Accelerated Partial Breast Radiation Therapy And External Beam Radiation Therapy By Treatment Planning Indices</p>
... brain radiation therapy (WBRT) and limitations for performing other techniques, we compare external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) with three-dimensional conformal ...
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Lifetime cost-effectiveness analysis of intraoperative radiation therapy versus external beam radiation therapy for early stage breast cancer
... with radiation exposure, care in the last year of life direct cost estimates—all these were used from published data ...to radiation, the compli- cation rate based on that exposure and a weighting of a ...
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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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A biomechanical approach for real-time tracking of lung tumors during External Beam Radiation Therapy (EBRT)
... the lung biomechanical model which inputs the BCs obtained from the NN to output the tumor position and geometry. This hybrid approach is believed to be more effective than using a solely heuristic model (e.g. NN) to ...
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Model-based cost-effectiveness analysis of external beam radiation therapy for the treatment of localized prostate cancer: a systematic review
... three external beam radia- tion therapy alternatives and their result showed that compared to IMRT and PBT, SBRT was less costly and resulted in more ...
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Assessment of quality of life in patients with metastatic bone disease being treated with bisphosphonates and external beam radiation therapy
... is more prevalent in the axial skeleton compared to the appendicular skeleton, due to a higher percentage of red bone marrow. We also assessed quality of life of patients suffering with bone metastasis being treated ...
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Profile of Pediatric Cancer Patients Treated with External Beam Radiation Therapy Under Anesthesia at a Regional Cancer Center of India
... Department of radiation oncology at our institute has a separate setup of RT planning and treatment for pediatric patients who may require anesthesia. The initial clinical workup of the patients is performed in ...
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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, there were more acute gastrointestinal side effects in the group that used HEBRT. The side effects were even more accentuated when HEBRT was compared with higher doses of CEBRT ($78 Gy) and when the ...
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Benefits, risks, and safety of external beam radiation therapy for breast cancer
... mean radiation dose to the ...late radiation-associated toxicity, it was found that elevated cardiac risk was apparent within fewer than 5 years of receipt of left-sided ...cardiac radiation in ...
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Dynamic contrast enhanced MRI as a predictor of vascular targeted photodynamic focal ablation therapy outcome in prostate cancer post failed external beam radiation therapy
... Fig. 1. Successful photodynamic therapy. A. Baseline dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (DCE-MRI) shows early enhancement in the right anterior mid gland (arrow). B. 10 minute post contrast ...
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Trans-arterial chemoembolization and external beam radiation therapy for treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma with a tumor thrombus in the inferior vena cava and right atrium
... radio- therapy planning, the patients underwent contrast-enhanced CT scans in a supine position, with both arms raised above the ...a radiation treatment planning system (Pinnacle, The Philips Medical ...
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Short-term outcomes of the surgical management of acquired rectourethral fistulas: does technique matter?
... From 1999 to 2009, 22 patients underwent repair of RUF. All the patients were male and they had an average age of 69 years (range: 39–82 years). All patients had a diagnosis of and had been treated for prostate cancer, ...
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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 ...
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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) provides an attractive option for patients with intermediate or high-risk prostate disease as it delivers a higher radiobio- logical dose to the ...
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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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Comparative Study of Dose Distribution Homogeneity between 3D Brachytherapy and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy Techniques in Cervix Cancer Tumors
... of external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) for the whole pelvic irrad- iation 45 Gy/25 fractions, followed by 3D-Brachytherapy 24 Gy per weekly fractions and 36 Gy of IMRT per 18 ...
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Development of South Australian Victorian Prostate Cancer Health Outcomes Research Dataset
... deprivation therapy; CT: computed tomography; EBRT: external beam radiation; HDR: high dose radiation; LDR: low dose radiation; MRI: magnetic resonance imaging; NCCN: National ...
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Efficacy of external beam radiotherapy for the management of refractory plantar fasciitis: a prospective study
... total radiation dose in benign disease is much less than that given in malignancies; the radiobiological mechanisms postulated to be involved in its therapeutic effect are ...of radiation therapy in ...
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