Ausgabe 1/2009
Inhalt (71 Artikel)
Recommendations for implementing stereotactic radiotherapy in peripheral stage IA non-small cell lung cancer: report from the Quality Assurance Working Party of the randomised phase III ROSEL study
Coen W Hurkmans, Johan P Cuijpers, Frank J Lagerwaard, Joachim Widder, Uulke A van der Heide, Danny Schuring, Suresh Senan
On the performances of Intensity Modulated Protons, RapidArc and Helical Tomotherapy for selected paediatric cases
Antonella Fogliata, Slav Yartsev, Giorgia Nicolini, Alessandro Clivio, Eugenio Vanetti, Rolf Wyttenbach, Glenn Bauman, Luca Cozzi
Impact of collimator leaf width and treatment technique on stereotactic radiosurgery and radiotherapy plans for intra- and extracranial lesions
Q Jackie Wu, Zhiheng Wang, John P Kirkpatrick, Zheng Chang, Jeffrey J Meyer, Mei Lu, Calvin Huntzinger, Fang-Fang Yin
Determination of patient-specific internal gross tumor volumes for lung cancer using four-dimensional computed tomography
Muthuveni Ezhil, Sastry Vedam, Peter Balter, Bum Choi, Dragan Mirkovic, George Starkschall, Joe Y Chang
Exclusion of elective nodal irradiation is associated with minimal elective nodal failure in non-small cell lung cancer
Erik P Sulman, Ritsuko Komaki, Ann H Klopp, James D Cox, Joe Y Chang
Job stress and job satisfaction of physicians, radiographers, nurses and physicists working in radiotherapy: a multicenter analysis by the DEGRO Quality of Life Work Group
Susanne Sehlen, Dirk Vordermark, Christof Schäfer, Peter Herschbach, Anja Bayerl, Steffi Pigorsch, Jutta Rittweger, Claudia Dormin, Tobias Bölling, Hans Joachim Wypior, Franz Zehentmayr, Wolfgang Schulze, Hans Geinitz
The script concordance test in radiation oncology: validation study of a new tool to assess clinical reasoning
Carole Lambert, Robert Gagnon, David Nguyen, Bernard Charlin
Direct aperture optimization as a means of reducing the complexity of intensity modulated radiation therapy plans
Maria Broderick, Michelle Leech, Mary Coffey
Reproducibility of patient setup by surface image registration system in conformal radiotherapy of prostate cancer
Marco Krengli, Simone Gaiano, Eleonora Mones, Andrea Ballarè, Debora Beldì, Cesare Bolchini, Gianfranco Loi
Prognostic indices for brain metastases – usefulness and challenges
Carsten Nieder, Minesh P Mehta
Stereotactic radiosurgery for glioblastoma: retrospective analysis
Tithi Biswas, Paul Okunieff, Michael C Schell, Therese Smudzin, Webster H Pilcher, Robert S Bakos, G Edward Vates, Kevin A Walter, Andrew Wensel, David N Korones, Michael T Milano
Concurrent chemoradiotherapy in adjuvant treatment of breast cancer
Nabil Ismaili, Nawfel Mellas, Ouafae Masbah, Sanaa Elmajjaoui, Samia Arifi, Imane Bekkouch, Samir Ahid, Zakaria Bazid, Mohammed Adnane Tazi, Abdelouahed Erraki, Omar El Mesbahi, Noureddine Benjaafar, Brahim El Khalil El Gueddari, Mohammed Ismaili, Said Afqir, Hassan Errihani
Potentials of on-line repositioning based on implanted fiducial markers and electronic portal imaging in prostate cancer radiotherapy
Reinhold Graf, Peter Wust, Volker Budach, Dirk Boehmer
Comparison of rectal volume definition techniques and their influence on rectal toxicity in patients with prostate cancer treated with 3D conformal radiotherapy: a dose-volume analysis
Cem Onal, Erkan Topkan, Esma Efe, Melek Yavuz, Serhat Sonmez, Aydin Yavuz
Stereotactic body radiotherapy for stage I lung cancer and small lung metastasis: evaluation of an immobilization system for suppression of respiratory tumor movement and preliminary results
Fumiya Baba, Yuta Shibamoto, Natsuo Tomita, Chisa Ikeya-Hashizume, Kyota Oda, Shiho Ayakawa, Hiroyuki Ogino, Chikao Sugie
Radiotherapy quality assurance review in a multi-center randomized trial of limited-disease small cell lung cancer: the Japan Clinical Oncology Group (JCOG) trial 0202
Naoko Sanuki-Fujimoto, Satoshi Ishikura, Kazushige Hayakawa, Kaoru Kubota, Yutaka Nishiwaki, Tomohide Tamura
Constitutive gene expression profile segregates toxicity in locally advanced breast cancer patients treated with high-dose hyperfractionated radical radiotherapy
Luis Alberto Henríquez Hernández, Pedro Carlos Lara, Beatriz Pinar, Elisa Bordón, Carlos Rodríguez Gallego, Cristina Bilbao, Leandro Fernández Pérez, Amílcar Flores Morales
Monte Carlo dose verification of prostate patients treated with simultaneous integrated boost intensity modulated radiation therapy
Nesrin Dogan, Ivaylo Mihaylov, Yan Wu, Paul J Keall, Jeffrey V Siebers, Michael P Hagan
Clinical outcome of breast cancer occurring after treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma: case-control analysis
Mohamed A Alm El-Din, Kevin S Hughes, Rita A Raad, Saveli I Goldberg, Alan C Aisenberg, Andrzej Niemierko, Alphonse G Taghian
Extraneural metastases from cranial meningioma: a case report
Mirna Abboud, George Haddad, Mireille Kattar, Ibrahim Aburiziq, Fady B Geara
Radiation-induced cancer after radiotherapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma of the head and neck: a retrospective study
Kazuma Toda, Hitoshi Shibuya, Keiji Hayashi, Fumio Ayukawa
Implications of a high-definition multileaf collimator (HD-MLC) on treatment planning techniques for stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT): a planning study
James A Tanyi, Paige A Summers, Charles L McCracken, Yiyi Chen, Li-Chung Ku, Martin Fuss
Weak expression of cyclooxygenase-2 is associated with poorer outcome in endemic nasopharyngeal carcinoma: analysis of data from randomized trial between radiation alone versus concurrent chemo-radiation (SQNP-01)
Susan Li Er Loong, Jacqueline Siok Gek Hwang, Hui Hua Li, Joseph Tien Seng Wee, Swee Peng Yap, Melvin Lee Kiang Chua, Kam Weng Fong, Terence Wee Kiat Tan
Concurrent chemo-radiotherapy following neoadjuvant chemotherapy in locally advanced breast cancer
Alberto Alvarado-Miranda, Oscar Arrieta, Carlos Gamboa-Vignolle, David Saavedra-Perez, Rafael Morales-Barrera, Enrique Bargallo-Rocha, Juan Zinser-Sierra, Victor Perez-Sanchez, Teresa Ramirez-Ugalde, Fernando Lara-Medina
The radiosensitizer 2-benzoyl-3-phenyl-6,7-dichloroquinoxaline 1,4-dioxide induces DNA damage in EMT-6 mammary carcinoma cells
Joelle Haykal, Fady Geara, Makhluf J Haddadin, Colin A Smith, Hala Gali-Muhtasib
cExternal beam radiation results in minimal changes in post void residual urine volumes during the treatment of clinically localized prostate cancer
Peter F Orio III, Gregory S Merrick, Zachariah A Allen, Wayne M Butler, Kent E Wallner, Brian S Kurko, Robert W Galbreath
Simultaneous integrated boost radiotherapy for bilateral breast: a treatment planning and dosimetric comparison for volumetric modulated arc and fixed field intensity modulated therapy
Giorgia Nicolini, Alessandro Clivio, Antonella Fogliata, Eugenio Vanetti, Luca Cozzi
Conformal radiotherapy for lung cancer: interobservers' variability in the definition of gross tumor volume between radiologists and radiotherapists
Chiang J Tyng, Rubens Chojniak, Paula NV Pinto, Marcelle A Borba, Almir GV Bitencourt, Ricardo C Fogaroli, Douglas G Castro, Paulo E Novaes
Severe hypoxia induces chemo-resistance in clinical cervical tumors through MVP over-expression
Pedro C Lara, Marta Lloret, Bernardino Clavo, Rosa M Apolinario, Luis Alberto Henríquez-Hernández, Elisa Bordón, Fausto Fontes, Agustín Rey
Target splitting in radiation therapy for lung cancer: further developments and exemplary treatment plans
Karl Wurstbauer, Heinz Deutschmann, Peter Kopp, Florian Merz, Helmut Schöller, Felix Sedlmayer
High throughput evaluation of gamma-H2AX
Dane Avondoglio, Tamalee Scott, Whoon Jong Kil, Mary Sproull, Philip J Tofilon, Kevin Camphausen
Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) combined with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) for soft-tissue sarcomas – a retrospective evaluation of the Homburg experience in the years 1995–2007
Marcus Niewald, Jochen Fleckenstein, Norbert Licht, Caroline Bleuzen, Christian Ruebe
Ipsilateral irradiation for well lateralized carcinomas of the oral cavity and oropharynx: results on tumor control and xerostomia
Laura Cerezo, Margarita Martín, Mario López, Alicia Marín, Alberto Gómez
RapidArc, intensity modulated photon and proton techniques for recurrent prostate cancer in previously irradiated patients: a treatment planning comparison study
Damien C Weber, Hui Wang, Luca Cozzi, Giovanna Dipasquale, Haleem G Khan, Osman Ratib, Michel Rouzaud, Hansjoerg Vees, Habib Zaidi, Raymond Miralbell
Comparison of CT and integrated PET-CT based radiation therapy planning in patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma
Berrin Pehlivan, Erkan Topkan, Cem Onal, Gul Nihal Nursal, Oznur Yuksel, Yemliha Dolek, Melek Nur Yavuz, Ali Aydin Yavuz
Self-assessed bowel toxicity after external beam radiotherapy for prostate cancer - predictive factors on irritative symptoms, incontinence and rectal bleeding
Michael Pinkawa, Marc D Piroth, Karin Fischedick, Sandra Nussen, Jens Klotz, Richard Holy, Michael J Eble
Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) in the treatment of children and Adolescents - a single institution's experience and a review of the literature
Florian Sterzing, Eva M Stoiber, Simeon Nill, Harald Bauer, Peter Huber, Jürgen Debus, Marc W Münter
The effect of on-line position correction on the dose distribution in focal radiotherapy for bladder cancer
Dominique C van Rooijen, Jeroen B van de Kamer, René Pool, Maarten CCM Hulshof, Caro CE Koning, Arjan Bel
Development of a neuro-fuzzy technique for automated parameter optimization of inverse treatment planning
Florian Stieler, Hui Yan, Frank Lohr, Frederik Wenz, Fang-Fang Yin
Patient information in radiation oncology: a cross-sectional pilot study using the EORTC QLQ-INFO26 module
Johannes Adler, Yvonne Paelecke-Habermann, Patrick Jahn, Margarete Landenberger, Bernd Leplow, Dirk Vordermark
Differential protection by wildtype vs. organelle-specific Bcl-2 suggests a combined requirement of both the ER and mitochondria in ceramide-mediated caspase-independent programmed cell death
Andrea Deerberg, Justyna Sosna, Lutz Thon, Claus Belka, Dieter Adam
Radiotherapy and radiosurgery for benign skull base meningiomas
Giuseppe Minniti, Maurizio Amichetti, Riccardo Maurizi Enrici
Radiation-induced Akt activation modulates radioresistance in human glioblastoma cells
Hui-Fang Li, Jung-Sik Kim, Todd Waldman
Remarks on reporting and recording consistent with the ICRU Reference Dose
Klaus Bratengeier, Markus Oechsner, Mark Gainey, Michael Flentje
A dosimetric comparison of four treatment planning methods for high grade glioma
Leor Zach, Bronwyn Stall, Holly Ning, John Ondos, Barbara Arora, Shankavaram Uma, Robert W Miller, Deborah Citrin, Kevin Camphausen
Pharmacokinetics and biodistribution of Erufosine in nude mice - implications for combination with radiotherapy
Guido Henke, Lars H Lindner, Michael Vogeser, Hans-Jörg Eibl, Jürgen Wörner, Arndt C Müller, Michael Bamberg, Kirsten Wachholz, Claus Belka, Verena Jendrossek
AT-101, a small molecule inhibitor of anti-apoptotic Bcl-2 family members, activates the SAPK/JNK pathway and enhances radiation-induced apoptosis
Shuraila F Zerp, Rianne Stoter, Gitta Kuipers, Dajun Yang, Marc E Lippman, Wim J van Blitterswijk, Harry Bartelink, Rogier Rooswinkel, Vincent Lafleur, Marcel Verheij
A fast radiotherapy paradigm for anal cancer with volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT)
Florian Stieler, Dirk Wolff, Frank Lohr, Volker Steil, Yasser Abo-Madyan, Friedlieb Lorenz, Frederik Wenz, Sabine Mai
Combined treatment with lexatumumab and irradiation leads to strongly increased long term tumour control under normoxic and hypoxic conditions
Patrizia Marini, Dorothea Junginger, Stefan Stickl, Wilfried Budach, Maximilian Niyazi, Claus Belka
Image guided dose escalated prostate radiotherapy: still room to improve
Jarad M Martin, Andrew Bayley, Robert Bristow, Peter Chung, Mary Gospodarowicz, Cynthia Menard, Michael Milosevic, Tara Rosewall, Padraig R Warde, Charles N Catton
The ATM and ATR inhibitors CGK733 and caffeine suppress cyclin D1 levels and inhibit cell proliferation
John P Alao, Per Sunnerhagen
Clinical-dosimetric analysis of measures of dysphagia including gastrostomy-tube dependence among head and neck cancer patients treated definitively by intensity-modulated radiotherapy with concurrent chemotherapy
Baoqing Li, Dan Li, Derick H Lau, D Gregory Farwell, Quang Luu, David M Rocke, Kathleen Newman, Jean Courquin, James A Purdy, Allen M Chen
Audiological findings in patients treated with radio- and concomitant chemotherapy for head and neck tumors
Ana Helena B Dell'Aringa, Myrian L Isaac, Gustavo V Arruda, Maria Carolina BN Esteves, Alfredo Rafael Dell'Aringa, José Luis S Júnior, Alexandre F Rodrigues
Systematisation of spatial uncertainties for comparison between a MR and a CT-based radiotherapy workflow for prostate treatments
Tufve Nyholm, Morgan Nyberg, Magnus G Karlsson, Mikael Karlsson
Reirradiation to the abdomen for gastrointestinal malignancies
Waqar Haque, Christopher H Crane, Sunil Krishnan, Marc E Delclos, Milind Javle, Christopher R Garrett, Robert A Wolff, Prajnan Das
[68Ga]-DOTATOC-PET/CT for meningioma IMRT treatment planning
Barbara Gehler, Frank Paulsen, Mehmet Ö Öksüz, Till-Karsten Hauser, Susanne M Eschmann, Roland Bares, Christina Pfannenberg, Michael Bamberg, Peter Bartenstein, Claus Belka, Ute Ganswindt
Integrated-boost IMRT or 3-D-CRT using FET-PET based auto-contoured target volume delineation for glioblastoma multiforme - a dosimetric comparison
Marc D Piroth, Michael Pinkawa, Richard Holy, Gabriele Stoffels, Cengiz Demirel, Charbel Attieh, Hans J Kaiser, Karl J Langen, Michael J Eble
Prediction of clinical toxicity in localized cervical carcinoma by radio-induced apoptosis study in peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBLs)
Elisa Bordón, Luis Alberto Henríquez Hernández, Pedro C Lara, Beatriz Pinar, Fausto Fontes, Carlos Rodríguez Gallego, Marta Lloret
The TGF-β1 dynamics during radiation therapy and its correlation to symptomatic radiation pneumonitis in lung cancer patients
Ji-Yoon Kim, Yeon-Sil Kim, Young-Kyoon Kim, Hyun-Jin Park, Seung-Joon Kim, Jin-Hyoung Kang, Young-Pil Wang, Hong-Seok Jang, Sang-Nam Lee, Sei-Chul Yoon
Radiation therapy in primary orbital lymphoma: a single institution retrospective analysis
Luigi De Cicco, Laura Cella, Raffaele Liuzzi, Raffaele Solla, Antonio Farella, Giorgio Punzo, Fausto Tranfa, Diego Strianese, Manuel Conson, Giulio Bonavolontà, Marco Salvatore, Roberto Pacelli
The effect on the small bowel of 5-FU and oxaliplatin in combination with radiation using a microcolony survival assay
Adalsteinn Gunnlaugsson, Per Nilsson, Elisabeth Kjellén, Anders Johnsson
Whole pelvic helical tomotherapy for locally advanced cervical cancer: technical implementation of IMRT with helical tomothearapy
Chen-Hsi Hsieh, Ming-Chow Wei, Hsing-Yi Lee, Sheng-Mou Hsiao, Chien-An Chen, Li-Ying Wang, Yen-Ping Hsieh, Tung-Hu Tsai, Yu-Jen Chen, Pei-Wei Shueng
Role of p53 mutation in the effect of boron neutron capture therapy on oral squamous cell carcinoma
Yusei Fujita, Itsuro Kato, Soichi Iwai, Koji Ono, Minoru Suzuki, Yoshinori Sakurai, Ken Ohnishi, Takeo Ohnishi, Yoshiaki Yura
Monte Carlo vs. Pencil Beam based optimization of stereotactic lung IMRT
Marcin Sikora, Jan Muzik, Matthias Söhn, Martin Weinmann, Markus Alber
Erratum to: Image guided dose escalated prostate radiotherapy: still room to improve
Jarad M Martin, Andrew Bayley, Robert Bristow, Peter Chung, Mary Gospodarowicz, Cynthia Menard, Michael Milosevic, Tara Rosewall, Padraig R Warde, Charles N Catton
Late treatment with imatinib mesylate ameliorates radiation-induced lung fibrosis in a mouse model
Minglun Li, Amir Abdollahi, Hermann-Josef Gröne, Kenneth E Lipson, Claus Belka, Peter E Huber
Prospective phase II study of preoperative short-course radiotherapy for rectal cancer with twice daily fractions of 2.9 Gy to a total dose of 29 Gy - Long-term results
Matthias Guckenberger, Joern Wulf, Andreas Thalheimer, Daniel Wehner, Arnulf Thiede, Gottfried Müller, Marco Sailer, Michael Flentje
Evalution of surface-based deformable image registration for adaptive radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
Matthias Guckenberger, Kurt Baier, Anne Richter, Juergen Wilbert, Michael Flentje
The c-Met receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor MP470 radiosensitizes glioblastoma cells
James W Welsh, Daruka Mahadevan, Ron Ellsworth, Laurence Cooke, David Bearss, Baldassarre Stea
Toxicity risk of non-target organs at risk receiving low-dose radiation: case report
Pei-Wei Shueng, Shih-Chiang Lin, Hou-Tai Chang, Ngot-Swan Chong, Yu-Jen Chen, Li-Ying Wang, Yen-Ping Hsieh, Chen-Hsi Hsieh
3D-conformal Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation treatment planning: the value of surgical clips in the delineation of the lumpectomy cavity
Maia Dzhugashvili, Elodie Tournay, Charlotte Pichenot, Ariane Dunant, Eduardo Pessoa, Adel Khallel, Sébastien Gouy, Catherine Uzan, Jean-Rémy Garbay, Françoise Rimareix, Marc Spielmann, Philippe Vielh, Hugo Marsiglia, Céline Bourgier