Risk adapted dose-intensified postoperative radiation therapy in prostate cancer patients using a simultaneous integrated boost technique applied with helical Tomotherapy

Risk adapted dose-intensified postoperative radiation therapy in prostate cancer patients using a simultaneous integrated boost technique applied with helical Tomotherapy

Abstract Background Postoperative adjuvant radiation therapy (ART) in T3 and R1 prostate cancer as well as salvage radiation therapy (SRT) in case of postoperative biochemical failure (BF) are established treatments. Dose-intensified postoperative radiation therapy (RT) schemes have shown superior b...

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Main Authors: Marcus Beck, Peter Wust, Tomasz Barelkowski, David Kaul, Alexander-Henry Thieme, Sascha Wecker, Waldemar Wlodarczyk, Volker Budach, Pirus Ghadjar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-08-01
Series:Radiation Oncology
Subjects:
Prostate cancer
Radiation therapy
Postoperative
Salvage
Boost
Dose intensified
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13014-017-0862-4

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