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Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 2019 Radiotherapy is used in >50% of patients with cancer, both for curative and palliative purposes. Radiotherapy uses ionizing radiation to target and kill tumour tissue, but normal tissue can also be damaged, leading to toxicity. Modern and precise radiotherapy techniques, such as intensity-modulated radiotherapy, may prevent toxicity, but some patients ...
Ruysscher, Dirk de +5 more
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Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1974 Summary The author examines the place of radiotherapy in the management of oesophageal cancer. Many of these tumours are locally curable with radiotherapy. This is so particularly with the proliferative, poorly differentiated tumour.
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Journal of Radiation and Cancer Research, 2021 Radiotherapy is one of the widely used modalities of treatment in an oncology setting whether the approach to treat cancer is either curative or palliative. Tumor masses bleeding is not an uncommon emergency in cancer patients and local radiotherapy is very commonly used as a hemostatic therapy. Hemostatic radiotherapy is used
Aastha Shah, U Suryanarayan
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Role of chemotherapy in nasopharyngeal carcinoma
Oncology Reviews, 2012 Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a unique malignant head and neck cancer with clinical, demographic, and geographic features distinct from other head and neck epithelial malignancies.
Fabiola Paiar +10 more
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Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment, 2020 Objective: Concurrent chemoradiation (cCHRT) has been confirmed as the standard treatment for local advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This study is to assess the appropriate timing of radiotherapy and cycles of induction chemotherapy for those
Liyao Chen +10 more
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Radiation Oncology, 2022 Background To analyze RapidPlan knowledge-based models for DVH estimation of organs at risk from breast cancer VMAT plans presenting arc sectors en-face to the breast with zero dose rate, feature imposed during the optimization phase (avoidance sectors ...
Antonella Fogliata +9 more
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International Journal of Genomics, 2022 ALDH1A3 and Linc00284 involve in colorectal cancer (CRC) development; however, the regulatory mechanism is still unclear. In this study, we collected clinicopathological characteristics and tissue samples from 73 CRC patients to analyze the expression of
Chunlin Ke +5 more
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World Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2021 Background The radiation-induced lung injury (RILI) in patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLS) is very common in clinical settings; we aimed to evaluate the risk factors of RILI in NSCLS patients, to provide insights into the treatment ...
Sha Sha +4 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen +23 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background An international Delphi panel of experts developed consensus statements to delineate the circumstances where the risks of dexamethasone as an antiemetic do and do not outweigh its benefits. Procedure Experts in supportive care of pediatric patients were invited to participate.
Negar Shavandi +20 more
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