PURPOSE: To determine in a meta-analysis whether the outcomes in men with localized
prostate cancer treated with high-dose radiotherapy (HDRT) are better than those in men …

Ionizing radiation is commonly used to treat a number of malignancies. Although highly
effective and now more targeted, many patients suffer side effects. The number of cancer …

Context There has been rapid adoption of newer radiation treatments such as intensity-
modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and proton therapy despite greater cost and limited …

PURPOSE: To review the state of the art in image-guided precision conformal radiotherapy
and to describe how helical tomotherapy compares with the image-guided practices being …

Clinical conformal radiotherapy is the holy grail of radiation treatment and is now becoming
a reality through the combined efforts of physical scientists and engineers, who have …

Chronic radiation enteritis is an increasing problem, as more patients receive radiotherapy
as part of their cancer therapy and as the long-term survival of these patients improves. This …

AIMS: Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) is a development of three-dimensional
conformal radiotherapy that offers improvements in dosimetry in many clinical scenarios …

Purpose: To establish guidelines for delineating the clinical target volume for pelvic nodal
irradiation by mapping the location of lymph nodes in relation to the pelvic anatomy …

With the recent advances in detection and treatment of cancer, there is an increasing
emphasis on the efficacy and safety aspects of cancer therapy. Radiation therapy is a …

Abdominal pelvic radiation therapy can induce acute or chronic lesions in the small bowel
wall, called radiation enteritis. Treatment of acute radiation enteritis is essentially …