Πλοήγηση ανά Θέμα "RADIATION-THERAPY"

Clinical features, outcome, and prognostic factors for survival and evolution to multiple myeloma of solitary plasmacytomas: A report of the Greek myeloma study group in 97 patients

Katodritou, E.; Terpos, E.; Symeonidis, A. S.; Pouli, A.; Kelaidi, C.; Kyrtsonis, M. C.; Kotsopoulou, M.; Delimpasi, S.; Christoforidou, A.; Giannakoulas, N.; Viniou, N. A.; Stefanoudaki, E.; Hadjiaggelidou, C.; Christoulas, D.; Verrou, E.; Gastari, V.; Papadaki, S.; Polychronidou, G.; Papadopoulou, A.; Giannopoulou, E.; Kastritis, E.; Kouraklis, A.; Konstantinidou, P.; Anagnostopoulos, A.; Zervas, K.; Dimopoulos, M. A. (2014)

Solitary plasmacytoma (SP) is a rare plasma cell dyscrasia characterized by the presence of bone or extramedullary plasma cell tumors. The treatment of choice is local radiotherapy (R/T) +/- surgical excision. The role of ...

Electron density of tissues and breast cancer radiotherapy: A quantitative CT study

Kalef-Ezra, J. A.; Karantanas, A. H.; Koligliatis, T.; Boziari, A.; Tsekeris, P. (1998)

Purpose: To obtain more accurate data on the electron density of tissues to be used in the treatment planning of breast cancer patients. Methods and materials: Single kV(p) quantitative computed tomography was applied in ...

Focal therapy for prostate cancer: patient selection and evaluation

Gravas, S.; Tzortzis, V.; de la Riva, S. I. M.; Laguna, P.; de la Rosette, J. (2012)

Recent stage migration toward low-risk prostate cancer, overtreament of biologically insignificant tumors with radical prostatectomy at the additional expense of a non-negligible morbidity and undertreatment of patients ...

High intratumoural accumulation of stealth (R) liposomal doxorubicin (Caelyx (R)) in glioblastomas and in metastatic brain tumours

Koukourakis, M. I.; Koukouraki, S.; Fezoulidis, I.; Kelekis, N.; Kyrias, G.; Archimandritis, S.; Karkavitsas, N. (2000)

The blood-brain barrier is a major obstacle for the chemotherapeutic drugs to effectively reach primary or secondary brain tumours. Stealth(R) liposomal drugs are highly accumulated in tumoural tissues. In the present study ...

Impact of beam quality on megavoltage radiotherapy treatment techniques utilizing gold nanoparticles for dose enhancement

Tsiamas, P.; Liu, B.; Cifter, F.; Ngwa, W. F.; Berbeco, R. I.; Kappas, C.; Theodorou, K.; Marcus, K.; Makrigiorgos, M. G.; Sajo, E.; Zygmanski, P. (2013)

This study determines the optimal clinical scenarios for gold nanoparticle dose enhancement as a function of irradiation conditions and potential biological targets using megavoltage x-ray beams. Four hundred and eighty ...

Irradiation-Induced Carotid Artery Stenosis: A Preventable Complication of Neck Radiotherapy?

Paraskevas, K. I.; Giannoukas, A. D.; Mikhailidis, D. P. (2009)

Patient-specific internal radionuclide dosimetry

Tsougos, I.; Loudos, G.; Georgoulias, P.; Theodorou, K.; Kappas, C. (2010)

The development of patient-specific treatment planning systems is of outmost importance in the development of radionuclide dosimetry, taking into account that quantitative three-dimensional nuclear medical imaging can be ...

Prognostic impact of tumor volumetry in patients with locally advanced head-and-neck carcinoma (non-nasopharyngeal) treated by radiotherapy alone or combined radiochemotherapy in a randomized trial

Plataniotis, G. A.; Theofanopoulou, M. E.; Kalogera-Fountzila, A.; Haritanti, A.; Ciuleanou, E.; Ghilezan, N.; Zamboglou, N.; Dimitriadis, A.; Sofroniadis, I.; Fountzilas, G. (2004)

Purpose: Tumor volume (TV) is one of the main reported factors determining the outcome of treatment in head-and-neck carcinomas. In this study, the prognostic impact of TV was explored in the context of a randomized trial ...

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 ...

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 ...