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External Radiotherapy of Thyroid Cancer [PDF]

open access: yesOncology Research and Treatment, 2001
Differentiated thyroid cancer comprises papillary, mixed papillary-follicular and follicular adenocarcinomas. They are mostly hormone-sensitive and respond to thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) suppression. The standard treatment is total thyroidectomy, (131)I therapy and thyroid hormone suppression therapy.
Pollinger, B., Dühmke, Eckhart
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The Pathophysiological effects of adjuvant preoperative chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy on patients with advanced rectal cancer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Introduction The modern treatment of colorectal cancer consists of surgery, with or without adjuvant pre-operative radiotherapy, chemotherapy or chemoradiotherapy (APT) for selected cases. In the United Kingdom, therapy may be given prior to surgery in
Rahmani, Samir
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Increased cardiovascular mortality more than fifteen years after radiotherapy for breast cancer: a population-based study. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
BACKGROUND: Breast radiotherapy as practised in the 1970s and 1980s resulted in significant myocardial exposure, and this was higher when the left breast was treated.
Putcha, V   +23 more
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Radiotherapy waiting times for women with breast cancer: a population-based cohort study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Background: Waiting times for cancer patients are a national priority in the UK. Previous studies have shown variation between cancer networks in the time between diagnosis and start of radiotherapy for all cancer patients. Studies of the relationship
Jack, Ruth H   +22 more
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RapidPlan knowledge based planning: iterative learning process and model ability to steer planning strategies

open access: yesRadiation Oncology, 2019
Purpose To determine if the performance of a knowledge based RapidPlan (RP) planning model could be improved with an iterative learning process, i.e. if plans generated by an RP model could be used as new input to re-train the model and achieve better ...
A. Fogliata   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Waiting times for radiotherapy: variation over time and between cancer networks in southeast England. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The aim of this study was to investigate variations in the length of time that patients with cancer wait from diagnosis to treatment with radiotherapy.
Massey, T   +20 more
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Intraoperative radiation therapy for the treatment of recurrent retroperitoneal and pelvic tumors: a single-institution analysis

open access: yesRadiation Oncology, 2018
Background Patients with recurrent retroperitoneal and pelvic region tumors often require multimodal therapies. Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) can deliver high-dose radiation to tumor beds, even if first-line external beam radiation therapy ...
Tharcisio Machado Coelho   +7 more
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Letter. Intensity-modulated radiotherapy for the treatment of breast cancer [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the systematic review of intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) in the treatment of breast cancer reported in Clinical Oncology by Dayes and colleagues [1], the only prospective randomised clinical trial (n = 306) testing forward-planned IMRT to have
Haviland, J.S.   +3 more
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Advanced head and neck cancer: Long-term results of chemo-radiotherapy, complications and induction of second malignancies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Background: Chemo-radiotherapy is superior to radiotherapy alone in the treatment of advanced, inoperable head and neck cancer. The long-term treatment results, the induction of second malignant tumors, and other long-term toxicities are not well defined.
Schorer, H.   +6 more
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Risk-adapted targeted intraoperative radiotherapy versus whole-breast radiotherapy for breast cancer:5-year results for local control and overall survival from the TARGIT-a randomised trial [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Background: The TARGIT-A trial compared risk-adapted radiotherapy using single-dose targeted intraoperative radiotherapy (TARGIT) versus fractionated external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) for breast cancer.
Tobias, Jeffrey S.   +36 more
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