Browsing by Author "Zygogianni, A."
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 of early breast cancer in scleroderma patients: Our experience with four cases and a short review of the literature
Kyrgias, G.; Theodorou, K.; Zygogianni, A.; Tsanadis, K.; Zervoudis, S.; Tzitzikas, J.; Koukourakis, M. (2012)Purpose: Connective vascular diseases (CVD), including scleroderma, are reported to represent for some researchers a relative contraindication and for others absolute contraindication for radiotherapy. The purpose of our ... -
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) -
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: ...