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Background: Many researchers are interested to know if there are any improvements in recent treatment...
Purpose: To determine if the number of axillary nodes removed is a predictor of recurrence...
Purpose: To study the absolute number of involved nodes/the number of nodes examined or the...
Background: In general, prognosis and impact of prognostic/predictive factors are assessed with Kaplan-Meier plots and/or...
Background: Validation of the use of the lognormal model for predicting long-term survival rates using...
PURPOSE: To perform a retrospective review of a single institution's 10-year experience in treating limited-stage...
PURPOSE: To predict the long-term survival results of clinical trials earlier than using actuarial methods...
PURPOSE: To investigate the therapeutic usefulness and cost-effectiveness of prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) in patients...
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: We analyzed the impact on survival outcomes of treatment interruptions due to...
Purpose: To develop an evidence-based clinical practice guideline that would address the following questions: (a)...
Background: A prospective, single-treatment-arm, Phase I/II trial was performed to determine the tumor response to...
PURPOSE: In this pilot study of high-dose-rate brachytherapy to the lumpectomy site as the sole...
Purpose: Different radiotherapy fractionation schedules were used over a 10-year period to treat patients with...
Amino acid decarboxylation activity in dispersed rat pancreas acinar cells and fractions derived by differential...
Background: Reports in the medical literature have described cases of extended survival of patients with...
Background: The present commonly used five-year survival rates are not adequate to represent the statistical...
Background and purpose: To assess the impact of extended volume radiation therapy (RT) with anastomotic...
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To perform a systematic review of the predictive ability of various dose-volume...
PURPOSE: To determine if stratification of limited stage small cell lung cancer (LSCLC) patients by...
After chemoradiation for localized non-small-cell lung cancer, surgery and prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) have been...
Purpose: To study the use of chemotherapy for Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) of the skin.
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OBJECTIVES: The present study investigated factors affecting outcome at relapse after previous surgery and adjuvant...
PURPOSE: Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy requires the precise definition of the target volume. Its potential...
PURPOSE: To assess the patterns of practice among Canadian radiation oncologists who treat esophageal cancers,...
PURPOSE: Three-dimensional (3D) conformal radiation therapy (CRT) assumes and requires the precise delineation of the...
Purpose: This review addresses the role of high-dose-rate endobronchial brachytherapy (HDREB) for symptom palliation in...
Introduction: Radiation therapy may offer patients presenting with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) symptom palliation and...
Background: Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) had been perceived to have a poor prognosis. Oncologists were...
PURPOSE: To determine the impact of continued smoking by patients receiving chemotherapy (CHT) and radiotherapy...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of radiation management on male breast cancer (MBC) at London...
Most cancer centers now perform sentinel node (SN) biopsies. The limited number of SNs sampled...
Purpose: To examine the effect of clinical presentation and interval to breast surgery on local...
Purpose: The optimal number of axillary nodes to be resected is controversial. This large series...
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of timing of radiotherapy...
Purpose: This retrospective review was conducted to determine if delay in the start of radiotherapy...
Breast irradiation is one of the most challenging problems in radiotherapy due to the complex...
In order to re-assess the potential contribution of infrared (IR) imaging as a first-line component...
PURPOSE: This retrospective review was conducted to determine if delay in the start of radiotherapy...
PURPOSE: To look for survival differences between men and women with limited stage small cell...
Lung cancer treatment is one of the most challenging fields in radiotherapy. The aim of...
A prototype x-ray needle, which emits 62.5 kVp x-rays at the tip of a 20...
The purpose of this work is to determine the most physically effective radiation energy for...
Management of patients who have disease relapse after completion of surgery and adjuvant chemo-radiation (CRT)...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the impact of extended field irradiation with anastomotic coverage on local recurrence...
OBJECTIVE: To assess the value of extended volume irradiation with anastomotic coverage in high risk...
Background and purpose: Lung cancer treatment can be one of the most challenging fields in...
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: To assess the patterns of practice among Canadian radiation oncologists who treat...
PURPOSE: To identify prognostic or treatment factors influencing the response of superior vena cava obstruction...
1. We previously reported that parotid gland secretion is decreased in rats deprived of vitamin...
Rat pancreas acinar cells contain 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT; 10.86 +/- 2.52 ng/i.u. amylase), all of which...
INTRODUCTION: Thymoma is a rare tumor for which there is little randomized evidence to guide...
OBJECTIVE: To characterize serial computed tomography (CT) findings of pulmonary injury after a uniform regimen...
A few series in the literature were published before 1987 on syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic...
Helical tomotherapy (HT) is a novel technique to deliver intensity modulated radiation therapy guided by...
The aim of this paper is to review the experience of radical radiation therapy and...
Lung cancer is the most frequent cause of cancer death in both men and women...
New technological concepts have been evolving to manage the relative poor prognosis of lung cancer....
Smoking, air pollution and radon exposure are causally related to lung cancer. This review analyzes...
The purpose of this paper is to describe a non-invasive method to monitor the motion...
The purpose of this study was to validate the accuracy and reliability of volume measurements...
The focus of this review is on the relationships between autoimmune diseases and cancer from...
Current 4D-CT methods require external marker data to retrospectively sort image data and generate CT...
We examine the impact of radiotherapy in the treatment of Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) of...
Background: Neuroendocrine/Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) of the skin is an uncommon tumour. Currently, there are...
An integrated system for minimally invasive robot-assisted image-guided lung brachytherapy has been developed. The system...
We set out to see if permanent interstitial brachytherapy seeds could be safely and reproducibly...
Background and purpose: Extended volume external beam radiation therapy (RT) following esophagectomy is controversial. This...
Post-operative radiation therapy (RT) (1) and post-operative chemoradiation (2) have been used for esophageal cancer...
Parallel tangent breast irradiation is commonly used postbreast conservation surgery for early breast cancer patient...
Mesothelioma is an uncommon tumor. It has a latency period of 20-40 years. The most...
Primary cardiac neoplasms are rare and they are not covered comprehensively in the literature, including...
The 4th annual Ontario Thoracic Cancer Conference at Niagara-on-the-lake focused on the themes of innova-...
There is a general consensus that earlier detection of breast cancer should result in improved...
Radiation-induced damage in nucleosomal DNA from Auger electron cascades due to incorporated cold IUdR has...
We investigated the DNA damage from Auger electrons emitted from incorporated stable iodine (127I), following...
