Radiotherapy Research Today is a free monthly online journal that collates and summarizes the latest research about Radiotherapy, including details on cancer treatment, side effects.

Volume 4 (2007), Issue 12 (December)

1. Ten-year data on 138 patients with endometrial carcinoma and postoperative vaginal brachytherapy alone: no need for external-beam radiotherapy in low and intermediate risk patients.
   Gynecol Oncol, 107(3): 541-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
2. Long-term urinary sequelae following 125iodine prostate brachytherapy.
   J Urol, 179(1): 141-5; discussion 146. [Abstract] [Full-text]
3. Decreased asbestos-induced lung inflammation and fibrosis after radiation and bone marrow transplant.
   Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol, 38(1): 16-25. [Abstract] [Full-text]
4. PET scanning and Gamma Knife radiosurgery in the early diagnosis and salvage "cure" of locally recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
   Br J Radiol, 81(961): e26-30. [Abstract] [Full-text]
5. Accelerated partial-breast intensity-modulated radiotherapy results in improved dose distribution when compared with three-dimensional treatment-planning techniques.
   Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 296-302. [Abstract] [Full-text]
6. Comparison of real-time intraoperative ultrasound-based dosimetry with postoperative computed tomography-based dosimetry for prostate brachytherapy.
   Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 311-7. [Abstract] [Full-text]
7. Radiation dose from cone beam computed tomography for image-guided radiation therapy.
   Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 272-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
8. (125)I monotherapy using D90 implant doses of 180 Gy or greater.
   Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 96-101. [Abstract] [Full-text]
9. On the need to compensate for edema-induced dose reductions in preplanned (131)Cs prostate brachytherapy.
   Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 303-10. [Abstract] [Full-text]
10. Fractionated grid therapy in treating cervical cancers: conventional fractionation or hypofractionation?
    Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 280-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
11. Quantitative assessment of range fluctuations in charged particle lung irradiation.
    Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 253-61. [Abstract] [Full-text]
12. A radiation badge survey for family members living with patients treated with a (103)Pd permanent breast seed implant.
    Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 267-71. [Abstract] [Full-text]
13. Interval to biochemical failure highly prognostic for distant metastasis and prostate cancer-specific mortality after radiotherapy.
    Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 59-66. [Abstract] [Full-text]
14. Stereotactic radiosurgery of the postoperative resection cavity for brain metastases.
    Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 187-93. [Abstract] [Full-text]
15. Long-term outcome after static intensity-modulated total body radiotherapy using compensators stratified by pediatric and adult cohorts.
    Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 194-202. [Abstract] [Full-text]
16. Fluorine-18-labeled fluoromisonidazole positron emission and computed tomography-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy for head and neck cancer: a feasibility study.
    Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 2-13. [Abstract] [Full-text]
17. Intrarectal amifostine during external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer produces significant improvements in Quality of Life measured by EPIC score.
    Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 90-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
18. Adjuvant brachytherapy removes survival disadvantage of local disease extension in stage IIIC endometrial cancer: a SEER registry analysis.
    Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 134-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
19. Toxicity profile with a large prostate volume after external beam radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer.
    Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 83-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
20. Predictors of distant brain recurrence for patients with newly diagnosed brain metastases treated with stereotactic radiosurgery alone.
    Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 70(1): 181-6. [Abstract] [Full-text]
21. Role of stereotactic radiosurgery and fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy in pediatric brain tumors.
    Expert Rev Neurother, 8(1): 121-32. [Abstract] [Full-text]
22. Radiation for primary spine tumors.
    Neurosurg Clin N Am, 19(1): 119-23. [Abstract] [Full-text]
23. Treatment 'mismatch' in early prostate cancer: do treatment choices take patient quality of life into account?
    Cancer, 112(1): 61-8. [Abstract] [Full-text]
24. Improved survival with adjuvant external-beam radiation therapy in lymph node-negative pancreatic cancer: a United States population-based assessment.
    Cancer, 112(1): 34-42. [Abstract] [Full-text]
25. Tadalafil (Cialis) and erectile dysfunction after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: an open-label extension of a blinded trial.
    Urology, 70(6): 1190-3. [Abstract] [Full-text]
26. Long-term outcome after bone marrow transplantation for aplastic anemia using cyclophosphamide and total lymphoid irradiation as conditioning regimen.
    Biol Blood Marrow Transplant, 14(1): 43-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]
27. Health-related quality of life results in pathologic stage C prostate cancer from a Southwest Oncology Group trial comparing radical prostatectomy alone with radical prostatectomy plus radiation therapy.
    J Clin Oncol, 26(1): 112-20. [Abstract] [Full-text]
28. Phase II trial of a transplantation regimen of yttrium-90 ibritumomab tiuxetan and high-dose chemotherapy in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
    J Clin Oncol, 26(1): 90-5. [Abstract] [Full-text]
29. A phase I study of erlotinib in combination with gemcitabine and radiation in locally advanced, non-operable pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
    Ann Oncol, 19(1): 86-91. [Abstract] [Full-text]
30. Consensus guidelines for the management of radiation dermatitis and coexisting acne-like rash in patients receiving radiotherapy plus EGFR inhibitors for the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.
    Ann Oncol, 19(1): 142-9. [Abstract] [Full-text]

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