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External Radiotherapy in Mozambique: Report of the First Five Years of Activity of the Radiotherapy Service of the Maputo Central Hospital. [PDF]

Cancer Med
ABSTRACT Background A Radiotherapy Service (RS) started working in the Maputo Central Hospital (MCH), Mozambique, in August 2019. Here we describe its first 5 years of activity. Methods A total of 810 patients who underwent external radiotherapy between August 2019 and December 2023 were considered for the analysis.
Fontes F, Morais AG, Nhampule J, Navarro S, Sitoe N, Amisse L, Tulsidás S, Lorenzoni C, Carrilho C, Lunet N.   +9 more
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Art and digital technologies to support resilience during the oncological journey: The Art4ART project

Technical Innovations & Patient Support in Radiation Oncology, 2022
Introduction: New digital technologies can become a tool for welcoming the patient through the artistic dimension. Cancer patients, in particular, need support that accompanies and supports them throughout their treatment.
Luca Tagliaferri, Loredana Dinapoli, Calogero Casà, Giuseppe Ferdinando Colloca, Fabio Marazzi, Patrizia Cornacchione, Ciro Mazzarella, Valeria Masiello, Silvia Chiesa, Francesco Beghella Bartoli, Elisa Marconi, Marika D'Oria, Alfredo Cesario, Daniela Pia Rosaria Chieffo, Vincenzo Valentini, Maria Antonietta Gambacorta   +15 more
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Radioterapia de intensidade modulada do feixe (IMRT) - ilustração da técnica, suas indicações e vantagens

Revista Portuguesa Otorrinolaringologia e Cirurgia de Cabeça e Pescoço, 2009
A Radioterapia de Intensidade Modulada, conhecida pela sigla IMRT, é um estado-da-arte no tratamento do cancro. É um método que permite debitar altas doses de radiação directamente ao volume-alvo tumoral, de uma forma extremamente orientada e muito mais
Maria Adelina Costa, Paulo Serafim, Joana Vale, Paula Genésio, Graça Fonseca, Ricardo Guedes, Fernanda Ponte, Cármen Calçada, Nathalie Stas, Júlio Teixeira   +9 more
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May we routinely spare hippocampal region in primary central nervous system lymphoma during whole brain radiotherapy?

Radiation Oncology, 2023
Purpose One of the main limiting factors of whole-brain radiation therapy (WBRT) for primary central nervous system lymphoma (PCNSL) is the impairment of neurocognitive functions (NCFs), which is mainly caused by radiation-induced injury to the ...
Ciro Mazzarella, Silvia Chiesa, Lucrezia Toppi, Stefan Hohaus, Simona Gaudino, Francesco D’Alo, Nicola Dinapoli, Resta Davide, Tiziano Zinicola, Serena Bracci, Antonella Martino, Francesco Beghella Bartoli, Elisabetta Lepre, Roberta Bertolini, Silvia Mariani, Cesare Colosimo, Vincenzo Frascino, Gian Carlo Mattiucci, Maria Antonietta Gambacorta, Vincenzo Valentini, Mario Balducci   +20 more
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Effect of Cardioprotection on the Right Ventricular Function in Breast Cancer Patients Receiving Potentially Cardiotoxic Therapy: A SAFE Trial Substudy. [PDF]

Echocardiography
Short‐term neurohormonal cardioprotection reduced both left and right ventricular deterioration in breast cancer patients undergoing anthracycline‐based chemotherapy. Administration of bisoprolol, ramipril, or a combination of both mitigated the decline in right ventricular function during chemotherapy compared to placebo, facilitating recovery at 2 ...
Del Bene MR, Meattini I, Pilato G, Becherini C, Martella F, Salvestrini V, Marrazzo L, Saieva C, Olivotto I, Barletta G, Livi L.   +10 more
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Implementation of High Dose-rate Brachytherapy for Cervix Cancer in a Low-income Country

Annals of Global Health, 2018
Background: The purpose of this study is to detail the implementation of HDR brachytherapy at the only radiotherapy center in Nicaragua. Methods: Patients are treated with external-beam radiotherapy to 46–50Gy at 2Gy/fraction to the pelvis. A gynecologic
Sommer R. Nurkic, Ana Isabel Ocampo, Mario Josè Pinell Gadea, Julie Greenwalt, Mario Jose Vicente, Anielka Lucia Velasquez, Lisbeth Concepcion Lopez Peralta, Franck Soto Herrera, Osmara Calero Romero, Francisco Lopez Tenorio, Harving Lorente Zamora, Luis Matamoros Munguia, Anamaria Yeung   +12 more
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Clinical implication in the use of the AAA algorithm versus the AXB in nasopharyngeal carcinomas by comparison of TCP and NTCP values

Radiation Oncology, 2020
Purpose Retrospective analysis of volumetric modulated arc therapy treatment plans to investigate qualitative, possible, clinical consequences of the use of AAA versus AXB in nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) cases.
Antonella Bufacchi, Orietta Caspiani, Giulia Rambaldi, Luca Marmiroli, Giuseppe Giovinazzo, Mattia Polsoni   +5 more
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Usos y aplicaciones actuales de la radioterapia corporal estereotáctica

Gaceta Médica de México, 2023
La radioterapia corporal estereotáctica es una modalidad que con alta precisión administra dosis alta de radiación a un objetivo tumoral bien definido, en una o en pocas fracciones, y reduce significativamente la dosis que reciben los tejidos sanos ...
Rubí Ramos-Prudencio, Francisco Lozano-Ruiz, Alejandro Rodríguez-Laguna, Ma. Adela Poitevin-Chacón   +3 more
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Síndrome da veia cava superior

Revista Portuguesa de Pneumologia, 1998
RESUMO: A Sindrome da Vcia Cava Superior (SVCS) estágeralmente associada a doença oncológica avançada, apresentando um mau prognóistico.Esta sindrome com uma apresentação clinica aguda ou subaguda, pode requerer uma intervenção imediata.A ...
Graça Fonseca, Julieta Gonçalves, Paulo Serafim, Cármen P. Calçada, Olga Sousa, Tomé Fernandes   +5 more
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Tecniche di Breath - Hold a confronto nel trattamento del carcinoma mammario

Journal of Biomedical Practitioners, 2018
Nella radioterapia del carcinoma mammario sinistro la dose erogata all’arteria discendente anteriore (DA) aumenta il rischio di sviluppare un infarto del miocardio.
Corrado Macauda, Erminia Infusino, Davide Miccolis, Angelo Montagnoli, Claudio Dionisi   +4 more
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