Radiation Therapy
Data on radiation therapy published by M. Bignardi and colleagues
Published in Gastroenterology Week, January 25th, 2010
According to a study from Bellinzona, Switzerland, "A planning study was performed comparing volumetric modulated arcs, RapidArc (RA), fixed beam IMRT (IM), and conformal radiotherapy (CRT) with multiple static fields or short conformal arcs in a series of patients treated with hypofractionated stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for solitary or oligo-metastases from different tumors to abdominal lymph nodes. Fourteen patients were included in the study."
"Dose prescription was set to 45 Gy (mean dose to clinical target volume [CTV]) in six fractions of 7.5 Gy. for CTV and planning target volume (PTV) were as follows: Dose(min) >95%, Dose(max) <107%. For...
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