Strahlentherapie und Onkologie

Globally, cancer is the second most common cause of mortality after cardiovascular disease [ 1 ]. Cancer incidence increases with age and according to the US 2012 statistical survey, elderly persons aged over 70 years comprise about 50% of the …

Treatment of local breast cancer recurrence remains an important challenge for multidisciplinary breast cancer centers. Despite adjuvant radiotherapy, approximately 3–15% of breast cancer patients experience a locoregional recurrence after …

Vestibular schwannomas (VS) usually originate from the perineural Schwann cells of either the superior or inferior vestibular branch of the VIII cranial nerve and represent mostly benign brain tumors. Although of slow growing nature, VS patients …

Respiratory motion remains one of the big challenges in high-precision radiation therapy (RT) of tumors in the lung, liver, or other upper abdominal targets [ 1 , 2 ]. Conventionally, a large area around the mean tumor position of a breathing cycle …

Das übliche Zielvolumenkonzept in der primären RCT von Plattenepithelkarzinomen im Kopf-Hals-Bereich erfasst den Primarius sowie die pathologisch vergrößerten Lymphknoten im Boost-Bereich mit Dosen um 70 Gy. Die elektiven (nicht …