Designed-seamless irradiation technique for extended whole mediastinal proton-beam irradiation for esophageal cancer

BACKGROUND: Proton-beam therapy (PBT) provides therapeutic advantages over conformal x-ray therapy in sparing organs at risk when treating esophageal cancer because of the fundamental physical dose distribution of the proton-beam. However, cases with extended esophageal lesions are difficult to trea...

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Autores principales: Okonogi, Noriyuki, Hashimoto, Takatuki, Ishida, Masaya, Ohno, Toshiki, Terunuma, Toshiyuki, Okumura, Toshiyuki, Sakae, Takeji, Sakurai, Hideyuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
Materias:
Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3508937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23078998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-7-173

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3508937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23078998
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1748-717X-7-173

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