Browsing by Author "Kouloulias, V."
Now showing items 1-19 of 19
-
Accelerated hypofractionated radiotherapy schedules in breast cancer: A review of the current literature
Kalogeridi, M. A.; Kelekis, N.; Kouvaris, J.; Platoni, K.; Kyrias, G.; Pectasides, D.; Kouloulias, V. (2009)Lumpectomy followed by breast irradiation is an alternative to mastectomy for patients with early-stage breast cancer. The purpose of radiation treatment following lumpectomy is to minimize the risk of recurrent cancer in ... -
Accelerated Hypofractionated Whole-Breast Irradiation With Concomitant Daily Boost in Early Breast Cancer
Kyrgias, G.; Zygogianni, A.; Theodorou, K.; Koukourakis, M.; Oikonomou, A.; Kouvaris, J.; Kouloulias, V. (2015)Objectives:The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and the related toxicity of hypofractionated whole-breast irradiation with a concomitant daily boost in early breast cancer women not eligible for accelerated ... -
Caregivers' attachment patterns and their interactions with cancer patients' patterns
Tsilika, E.; Parpa, E.; Zygogianni, A.; Kouloulias, V.; Mystakidou, K. (2015)To provide a brief review of the empirical literature regarding the attachment style of the cancer patients' caregivers as well as the link between attachment, caregiving, and care-receiving behaviors are defined. An ... -
Challenges and Choices in Prostate Cancer Irradiation: From the Three Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy to the Era of Intensity Modulated, Image-Guided and Adaptive Radiation Treatment
Kalogeridi, M. A.; Kyrgias, G.; Zygogianni, A.; Kouvaris, J.; Theodorou, K.; Kelekis, N.; Kouloulias, V. (2014)In the last decades the status of radiotherapy was tremendously increased in terms of conformity to the target as well as image-guided techniques in conjunction with intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). The technological ... -
Comparison of Two Radiotherapeutic Hypofractionated Schedules in the Application of Tumor Bed Boost
Zygogianni, A.; Kouloulias, V.; Kyrgias, G.; Armpilia, C.; Antypas, C.; Theodorou, K.; Kouvaris, J. (2013)The application of the tumor bed boost by using 2 different hypofractionated planning techniques permit more efficient use of resources in hospitals. The evaluation of the radiation toxicity and the efficacy of the 2 ... -
The Impact of Intermediate Time between Chemotherapy and Hypofractionated Radiotherapy to the Radiation Induced Skin Toxicity for Breast Adjuvant Treatment
Zygogianni, A.; Kouloulias, V.; Antypas, C.; Armpilia, C.; Kyrgias, G.; Kouvaris, J. (2014)To evaluate the impact of intermediate time between chemotherapy and radiotherapy (ITCR) to skin toxicity for a hypofractionated irradiation schedule. Forty-four patients with stage I-II invasive breast cancer receiving ... -
Male Breast Carcinoma: Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Current Therapeutic Approaches
Zygogianni, A. G.; Kyrgias, G.; Gennatas, C.; Ilknur, A.; Armonis, V.; Tolia, M.; Papaloukas, C.; Pistevou, G.; Kouvaris, J.; Kouloulias, V. (2012)Male breast cancer is a very rare disease with an incidence of about 0.5-1% comparing with the one of female breast cancer but relatively little is known about its cause. Treatment strategies for breast cancer in males are ... -
Melanoma: The Radiotherapeutic point of view; review of the current literature
Zygogianni, A.; Kyrgias, G.; Kouvaris, J.; Mystakidou, K.; Gogas, H.; Kouloulias, V. (2011)Surgery remains the mainstay of melanoma therapy at all sites. Melanoma is widely believed to be a radioresistant tumor, a misconception that has historically led to the limited use of RT for its treatment. We searched ... -
A new role of PET/CT for target delineation for radiotherapy treatment planning for head and neck carcinomas
Zygogianni, A.; Kyrgias, G.; Kouvaris, J.; Pistevou-Gompaki, K.; Kouloulias, V. (2012)Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose- positron emission tomography (F-18-FDG PET) in head and neck cancer patients is useful for staging, identification of macroscopic disease, detection of invaded lymph nodes and distant ... -
Oral squamous cell cancer: early detection and the role of alcohol and smoking
Zygogianni, A. G.; Kyrgias, G.; Karakitsos, P.; Psyrri, A.; Kouvaris, J.; Kelekis, N.; Kouloulias, V. (2011)Objective: Oral squamous cell carcinoma has a remarkable incidence worldwide and a fairly onerous prognosis, encouraging further research on factors that might modify disease outcome. Data sources: A web-based search for ... -
Potential Role of the Alcohol and Smoking in the Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head And Neck: Review of the Current Literature and New Perspectives
Zygogianni, A.; Kyrgias, G.; Mystakidou, K.; Antypas, C.; Kouvaris, J.; Papadimitriou, C.; Armonis, V.; Alkati, H.; Kouloulias, V. (2011)Alcohol and tobacco are responsible for a very large proportion of chronic disease and some tumors in particular may be the result of interactions between the two risk factors. The present systematic literature review was ... -
Prognostic Significance of Serum Inflammatory Response Markers in Newly Diagnosed Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer before Chemoirradiation
Tolia, M.; Tsoukalas, N.; Kyrgias, G.; Mosa, E.; Maras, A.; Kokakis, I.; Liakouli, Z.; Kouvaris, J. R.; Liaskonis, K.; Charalampakis, N.; Pistevou-Gombaki, K.; Kelekis, N.; Kouloulias, V. (2015)Purpose. To identify whether the serum's baseline C-reactive protein (CRP) and albumin (Alb) levels related to clinicopathological parameters and overall survival (OS) in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Methods. In ... -
Prognostic Value of MRS Metabolites in Postoperative Irradiated High Grade Gliomas
Tolia, M.; Verganelakis, D.; Tsoukalas, N.; Kyrgias, G.; Papathanasiou, M.; Mosa, E.; Kokakis, I.; Kouvaris, J. R.; Pissakas, G.; Pistevou-Gombaki, K.; Kelekis, N.; Kouloulias, V. (2015)Purpose. We studied the prognostic significance of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) in operated high grade gliomas. Materials and Methods. Twelve patients were treated with radiotherapy and Temozolomide. The MRS data ... -
Radiological and radiotherapeutic approaching of pediatric tumors in head and neck area
Zygogianni, A.; Kyrgias, G.; Kouvaris, J.; Alexopoulou, E.; Zefkili, S.; Theodorou, K.; Capezzali, G.; Mazioti, A.; Kirova, Y.; Antypas, C.; Armpilia, C.; Efstathopoulos, E.; Kelekis, N.; Kouloulias, V. (2013)The most common pediatric malignancies in head and neck area consisted of lymphoma, leukemia, brain tumors, neuroblastoma, Wilms' tumor, sarcomas and primarily rhabdomyosarcoma. This review reports in brief radiological ... -
Radiotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma: too hard to die?
Zygogianni, A. G.; Kyrgias, G.; Psyrri, A.; Kantzou, I.; Koumarianou, A.; Tolia, M.; Tsekeris, P.; Tsirigotis, P.; Sarris, G.; Kouvaris, J.; Kouloulias, V. (2012)The treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma (HL) is associated with significant toxicity. The objective of high quality management is to keep the concept of combined modality, while trying to decrease the radiation dose, to diminish ... -
Re-irradiation in head and neck cases using IMRT technique: A retrospective study with toxicity and survival report
Zygogianni, A.; Kyrgias, G.; Kouvaris, J.; Antypas, C.; Theodorou, K.; Papageorgiou, S.; Kouloulias, V. (2013) -
Samarium-153Sm-EDTMP as an equivalent variant to pharmaceutical analgesic treatment
Tsoucalas, G.; Sarafianou, E.; Galanos, A.; Parpa, E.; Baziotis, N.; Sgantzos, M.; Gennimata, V.; Lymperi, M.; Patiraki, E.; Kouloulias, V.; Mystakidou, K. (2014)Purpose: Cancer pain is the most serious symptom for patients, especially during their terminal phase, when palliative medicine is needed. Our study tried to verify the usefulness of single-shot intravenous administration ... -
Short-course hypofractionated radiochemotherapy for unresectable locally advanced cancer of the base of tongue: Palliation only? A case report and short review of the literature
Kalogeridi, M. A.; Kouloulias, V.; Zygogianni, A.; Kyrgias, G. (2014)We present a case of unresectable cancer of the base of tongue treated with hypofractionated 3D conformal radiotherapy and concomitant chemotherapy. Based on the excellent tumour response in this radiotherapy regimen and ... -
A weekly hypofractionated radiotherapeutic schedule for bladder carcinoma in elderly patients: local response, acute and late toxicity, dosimetric parameters and pain relief
Zygogianni, A.; Kouloulias, V.; Armpilia, C.; Antypas, C.; Kantzou, I.; Balafouta, M.; Kyrgias, G.; Sarris, G.; Kelekis, N.; Kouvaris, J. (2013)Purpose: To investigate the early and late toxicity of a hypofractionated radiotherapy (RT) schedule to treat muscle-invasive bladder cancer in relation to radiation parameters according to the organs at risk. Methods: ...