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Radiotherapy for lung cancer: target splitting by asymmetric collimation enables reduction of radiation doses to normal tissues and dose escalation.
Wurstbauer, K; Deutschmann, H; Kranzinger, M; Merz, F; Rahim, H; Sedlmayer, F; Kogelnik, HD;
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 1999; 44(2): 333-341.
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PMU-Autor/inn/en

Deutschmann Heinz
Sedlmayer Felix
Wurstbauer Karl

Abstract

This study was performed to develop a method of reducing the radiation doses to normal thoracic tissues, increasing the target dose, especially in the primary radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and to evaluate acute/subacute toxicity of dose escalation.


Useful keywords (using NLM MeSH Indexing)

Adenocarcinoma/pathology

Adenocarcinoma/radiotherapy

Adult

Aged

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/pathology

Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung/radiotherapy*

Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/pathology

Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/radiotherapy

Esophagitis/prevention*

control

Female

Humans

Lung Neoplasms/pathology

Lung Neoplasms/radiotherapy*

Male

Middle Aged

Neoplasm Staging

Radiation Injuries/prevention*

control

Radiation Pneumonitis/prevention*

control

Radiation Protection/methods

Radiotherapy Dosage

Radiotherapy Planning, Computer-Assisted

Radiotherapy, Conformal/methods*

Reproducibility of Results


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lung cancer
non-small cell lung cancer
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dose escalation