ut md anderson cancer center intracavitary brachytherapy

... the cancer center CCSG Guidelines September 25, 2012 1.3 FEATURES OF AN NCI-DESIGNATED CANCER CENTER A Policy of Inclusion: An NCI-designated Cancer Center capitalizes on all institutional cancer ... research but who have no formal appointment within the institutions that comprise the cancer center Collaborators from other NCI- designated Cancer Centers or research institutions may become center ... institutions  Number and title of this funding opportunity The LOI should be sent to: Director, Office of Cancer Centers National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health 6116 Executive...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20

... Works, for input of geometry files Transpire, Inc www.radiative.com Attila • Solid Works model of tandem and ovoids for clinical implant Historical Perspective UTMDACC ICBT • UTMDACC database ... cylinder applicators Evolution of FSD Ovoids Fletcher Suit Delclos Suit Delclos Suit Delclos Delclos, et al., Cancer 41, 970-979, 1978 Evolution of FSD Ovoids Delclos, et al., Cancer 41, 970-979, ... M D Anderson System for Intracavitary Implants • First described by Fletcher in the Textbook of Radiotherapy, 1969 • Not based upon Point A dose or dose rate The M D Anderson System for Intracavitary...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 10:20

... corresponded to 2.95 pixels/mm This was not the highest resolution provided by the system but was sufficient to compare with the calculation resolution (0.338 pixels/mm compared to 2.5 pixels/mm) The ... developed by the MD Anderson hospital (Doselab) was used to analyze films by profile and isodose comparison Since 2003, we have validated the results using the gamma index [20] but we will switch ... the anal canal cases compared to the high-risk prostate cancer cases (59.4 Gy vs 80 Gy ICRU) but the modulation factor was greater for anal cancer due to the increased complexity required to reach...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... Al-Amal Cancer Center Evaluation Amman, Jordan; 2002 Saint Jude's Hospital: Al-Amal Cancer Center Evaluation Unpublished report Memphis, TN; 1999 National Cancer Institute: Al-Amal Cancer Center ... of KHCC These active relationships with the global network of cancer centers and cancer advisory groups (i.e National Cancer Institute) made it possible to effectively use technology which facilitates ... Services National Cancer Institute, Samir Khleif, MD, was selected to lead the transformation With a personal history in the region and affiliation at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Dr Khleif...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 14:21

... scientific advisory board for Xoft, Inc Page of Authors' contributions All five authors contributed significantly to this manuscript by contributing to the study data collection, reviewing the ... electronic brachytherapy and Ir192 hdr brachytherapy in the treatment of endometrial cancer Brachytherapy 2008, 7(4):351-4 Rivard MJ, Davis SD, DeWerd LA, Rusch TW, Axelrod S: Calculated and measured brachytherapy ... Thun MJ: Cancer statistics 2009 CA Cancer J Clin 2009, 59(4):225-49 Scholten AN, van Putten WL, Beerman H, Smit VT, Koper PC, Lybeert ML, Jobsen JJ, Warlam-Rodenhuis CC, De Winter KA, Lutgens LC,...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... MA 02780, USA 7Swedish Cancer Institute, Comprehensive Breast Center, Swedish Medical Center, 1600 East Jefferson St Suite 305, Seattle, WA 98122, USA 8Dickstein Cancer Center, White Plains Hospital, ... Medical Center, 2101 Medical Parks Drive Suite 304, Silver Spring, MD 20902, USA 10 Beth Israel Medical Center, 10 Union Square East, New York City, NY 10003, USA Authors’ contributions All authors ... high-dose-rate brachytherapy and Xoft Axxent® electronic brachytherapy Brachytherapy 2007, 6:164-168 19 Dickler A: Xoft Axxent® electronic brachytherapy: a new device for delivering brachytherapy...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 01:24

... Centre de Lutte Contre le Cancer: Surgery after concurrent chemoradiotherapy and brachytherapy for the treatment of advanced cervical cancer: Morbidity and outcome: Results of a multicenter study ... cancer with radiation therapy is that intracavitary brachytherapy is an essential component of radical treatment of cervical cancer On the other hand, despite that for many years many institutions ... without brachytherapy The value of radical hysterectomy after primary radiation or chemoradiation has not been evaluated in randomized trials A study was reported in 1993 in which 20 uterine cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... interstitial breast brachytherapy is performed at relatively few centers in the U.S Balloon-based APBI methods were developed to simplify the brachytherapy procedure The MammoSite™ (MS) brachytherapy ... interstitial brachytherapy [10,11] Additional methods of balloon-based APBI are also being explored A modified form of balloon-based brachytherapy called Xoft Axxent Electronic Brachytherapy ... of APBI, which utilize radioisotope sources The early results of a clinical trial to evaluate the performance and safety of XB in the outpatient treatment of early-stage breast cancer patients...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 04:21

... shape of this target volume, the utility of brachytherapy planning based on computed tomography imaging has been investigated [23,24] With sophisticated computed tomography-based implantation ... and late subcutaneous toxicity developed in 19 (39.6%) and (14.6%) patients, respectively Asymptomatic fat necrosis was detected on routine follow-up mammography in (10.4%) patients, but required ... results of the phase II multicenter APBI trials for select early-stage breast cancer were recently reported [8-10,15] In the RTOG phase II trial [9], 66 patients received HDR brachytherapy (34 Gy in...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... be used The cut-out correction factors can be measured in the phantom as shown below OFCutoutCone A = M ConeA(uncollimated) / M ConeA (collimated) The Nominal Dose Rate with the cutout should be ... should be adjusted by the Cone and Cut-out corrections, as shown below, so that the tNominal can be calculated  D Nominal, cutout =  D Nominal, reference* OFCutoutCone A * OFConeA Treatment Delivery ... Nonmelanoma Skin Cancer in the United States, 2006 Arch Dermatol 2010, 146:283-287 Jemal A, Siegel R, Ward E, Hao Y, XU J, Thun J M: Cancer statistics, 2009 CA Cancer J Clin 2009, 59:225-249 Skin cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:20

... patients Five out of six patents with vaginal cancer also had concurrent weekly cisplatinum at 40 mg/m2 along with EBRT http://www.ro-journal.com/content/3/1/7 The HDRB was intracavitary brachytherapy ... than mm of invasion), while interstitial brachytherapy was used for more deeply invasive tumors greater than mm Five patients had intracavitary brachytherapy utilizing Delclos Vaginal Applicators ... median dose for intracavitary brachytherapy was 20 Gy (12 – 20 Gy) in 3–5 fractions prescribed at 0.5 cm from the surface of the applicator One of these patients had intracavitary brachytherapy...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... high-dose-rate brachytherapy boost for localized prostate cancer Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2007, 69:662-70 References 10 11 Canadian Cancer Society/National Cancer Institute of Canada: Canadian Cancer ... localized prostate cancer who underwent brachytherapy, radical prostatectomy or EBRT [14] Higher FACT-P scores were reported in patients treated with EBRT than with brachytherapy The authors concluded ... Patients and methods Prostate cancer is the leading form of cancer diagnosed among Canadian men and accounts for approximately 27% of new cancer cases and 11.4% of cancer deaths [1,2] Most newly...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... institutions, 24 institutions had introduced 3-D CT simulation, used only 2-D X-ray simulation, and used both In regard to the 35 participating institutions, 17 (49%) had no VU In 18 institutions ... participating institutions are being implemented to further improve JCOG trials Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions NS performed ... allowed, inter-institutional variation of the delivered dose would have been significant, and the convolution-superposition algorithm was not available in some participating institutions at the beginning...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 09:22

... given to patients without a previous course of EBRT (p = 0.011), but with no influence in OS (p = 0.9436) Four patients (19.4%) experienced acute and late adverse effects Suture dehiscence was ... chemoradiotherapy for head and neck cancer Curr Opin Oncol 2002, 14:323-329 Mazeron JJ, Noel G, Simon JM, Racadot S, Jauffret E: Brachytherapy in head and neck cancers Cancer Radiother 2003, 7(1):62-72 ... range of 32–60% Four patients (19.4%) experienced acute and late adverse effects Suture dehiscence occurred in patients and one developed subcutaneous infection Severe late side effects as local...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 10:21

... Nasopharyngeal cancer in northeastern Nigeria: clinical trends Niger J Clin Pract 2009, 12:379-382 Nwaorgu OG, Ogunbiyi JO: Nasopharyngeal cancer at the University College Hospital, Ibadan cancer Registry: ... media or Eustachian tube dysfunction for possible nasopharyngeal cancer Page of The otologic manifestations of nasopharyngeal cancer occur as a result of the sheer tumor bulk within the nasopharynx ... increased early diagnosis of nasopharyngeal cancer with consequently improved prognosis of the disease [9] This was not done in our patient because nasopharyngeal cancer was not in our list of differentials...

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Ngày tải lên: 28/08/2012, 09:42

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Ngày tải lên: 03/09/2012, 13:06

... DWORD cchWritten; HANDLE hStdout; BOOL fRet; // Get a handle to the standard output device hStdout = GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE); if (INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE == hStdout) return EOF; // Write a ... hStdout) return EOF; // Write a null-terminated string to the standard output device while (*lpszMsg != '\0') { fRet = WriteFile(hStdout, lpszMsg, 1, &cchWritten, NULL); if( (FALSE == fRet) || (1 != ... Example: myPuts #include #define EOF (-1) #ifdef cplusplus // If used by C++ code, extern "C" { // we need to export the C interface #endif declspec(dllexport) int myPuts(LPTSTR...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2012, 14:38