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Accelerated hypofractionated radiotherapy schedules in breast cancer: A review of the current literature
(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
(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 ... -
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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Intraoperative radiation therapy on pancreatic cancer patients: a review of the literature
(2011)Pancreatic cancer is rarely curable, and the overall survival rate at 5 years is under 4%. This study aimed to assess the efficacy, effectiveness and safety of intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) as treatment in ... -
Male Breast Carcinoma: Epidemiology, Risk Factors and Current Therapeutic Approaches
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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
(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?
(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 ... -
A weekly hypofractionated radiotherapeutic schedule for bladder carcinoma in elderly patients: local response, acute and late toxicity, dosimetric parameters and pain relief
(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: ...