Searching standard parameters for volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) of prostate cancer [PDF]
, 2012 Background Since December 2009 a new VMAT planning system tool is available in Oncentra® MasterPlan v3.3 (Nucletron B.V.). The purpose of this study was to work out standard parameters for the optimization of prostate cancer.
Dobler, Barbara +3 more
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Spinal Afferent Innervation of the Colon and Rectum
Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience, 2018 Despite their seemingly elementary roles, the colon and rectum undertake a variety of key processes to ensure our overall wellbeing. Such processes are coordinated by the transmission of sensory signals from the periphery to the central nervous system ...
S. Brierley, T. Hibberd, N. Spencer
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Interactive and Scale Invariant Segmentation of the Rectum/Sigmoid via User-Defined Templates [PDF]
SPIE Medical Imaging Conference 2016, Paper 9784-113, 2016 Among all types of cancer, gynecological malignancies belong to the 4th most frequent type of cancer among women. Besides chemotherapy and external beam radiation, brachytherapy is the standard procedure for the treatment of these malignancies. In the progress of treatment planning, localization of the tumor as the target volume and adjacent organs of ...
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Practice parameters for the treatment of colonic diverticular disease: Italian Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery (SICCR) guidelines [PDF]
, 2015 The mission of the Italian Society of Colorectal Surgery (SICCR) is to optimize patient care. Providing evidence-based practice guidelines is therefore of key importance.
Annibale, Bruno +7 more
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Association of perioperative blood pressure with long-term survival in rectal cancer patients
Chinese Journal of Cancer, 2016 Background Several studies suggested that hypertension is positively related to cancer incidence and mortality. In this study, we investigated the association between perioperative blood pressure (BP) and long-term survival outcomes in patients with ...
Hui-Chuan Yu +8 more
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Reducing the Model Variance of a Rectal Cancer Segmentation Network [PDF]
IEEE Access, vol. 7, Issue. 1, pp. 182725-182733, 2019, 2019 In preoperative imaging, the demarcation of rectal cancer with magnetic resonance images provides an important basis for cancer staging and treatment planning. Recently, deep learning has greatly improved the state-of-the-art method in automatic segmentation.
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Description of Hoplolaimus bachlongviensis sp. n. (Nematoda : Hoplolaimidae) from banana soil in Vietnam [PDF]
, 2015 Background The genus Hoplolaimus Daday, 1905 belongs to the subfamily Hoplolaimine Filipiev, 1934 of family Hoplolaimidae Filipiev, 1934 (Krall 1990). Daday established this genus on a single female of H.
Bui, Quang +2 more
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International Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2012 Japanese mortality due to colorectal cancer is on the rise, surpassing 49,000 in 2015. Many new treatment methods have been developed during recent decades.
Toshiaki Watanabe +39 more
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Adequacy of Lymph Node Staging in Colorectal Cancer: Analysis of 250 Patients and Analytical Literature Review [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Colorectal Research, 2013 Background The extent of lymph node involvement is the most important prognostic factor in resected locoregional colorectal cancer. Currently, examination of at least 12 lymph nodes is recommended for adequate colorectal cancer staging.
Leila Ghahramani +3 more
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Fecal incontinence: the quality of reported randomized, controlled trials in the last ten years. [PDF]
, 2008 This study was designed to analyze the characteristics and the quality of reporting of randomized, controlled trials published during the last ten years on fecal ...
Chelvanayagam, Sonya +2 more
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