Which technique for radiation is most beneficial for patients with locally advanced cervical cancer? Intensity modulated proton therapy versus intensity modulated photon treatment, helical tomotherapy and volumetric arc therapy for primary radiation – an intraindividual comparison

Simone Marnitz,Waldemar Wlodarczyk,Oliver Neumann,Christhardt Koehler,Mirko Weihrauch,Volker Budach,Luca Cozzi

Which technique for radiation is most beneficial for patients with locally advanced cervical cancer? Intensity modulated proton therapy versus intensity modulated photon treatment, helical tomotherapy and volumetric arc therapy for primary radiation – an intraindividual comparison

2015

Simone Marnitz
Waldemar Wlodarczyk
Oliver Neumann
Christhardt Koehler
Mirko Weihrauch
Volker Budach
Luca Cozzi

Background To compare highly sophisticated intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) delivered by either helical tomotherapy (HT), RapidArc (RA), IMRT with protons (IMPT) in patients with locally advanced cervical cancer.

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Radiology
Tomotherapy
Medical physics
Radiation therapy
Photon
Proton therapy
Nuclear medicine
Arc (geometry)
Radiation
Cervical cancer
Medicine
intraindividual comparison
locally advanced

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