Fig. 1 A 36-year-old female presented with early-stage, unfavorable Hodgkin lymphoma and was treated with combined modality therapy consisting of six cycles of ABVD followed by low-dose (20 Gy) consolidation…

Fig. 1 A 40-year-old male was treated for a radiation-induced atypical clival meningioma. He had a history of a pediatric posterior fossa tumor, reported as a glioblastoma, and had received…

As their above studies included all symptomatic late complications (except xerostomia), the complication rates of individual OAR were actually much lower than 20 %. This formula of estimation is very…

Author Case number Technique/dose Median survival Brachytherapy Scharfen et al. (1992) 66 GBM Brachytherapy I-125 64.4 Gy 11.3 months Sneed et al. (1997) 66 GBM 45 WHO III Brachytherapy I-125…

Fig. 1 The therapeutic index. (a) Therapeutic index for treatment with radiation alone. Radiation with dose A implies specific probabilities for tumor cure and normal tissue toxicity (e.g., 50 %…

Fig. 1 Example of an internationally used systematic biopsy scheme which can be used to prove a local recurrence. The number of cores depicted here is 10 Next, the evaluation…

Fig. 1 (a) A 75-year-old Caucasian male who previously received 50 Gy in 20 daily fractions using superficial energy photons in the setting of a squamous cell carcinoma. Note the…

Fig. 1 (a, b) Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans at initial presentation with skeletal metastases from prostate cancer in a 66-year-old man, previously treated with radical prostatectomy (a). The white…

Fig. 1 (a) An example of 3D conformal radiotherapy planning based on CT scans acquired under free breathing conditions. The gross tumor volume (GTV) and planning target volume (PTV) are…

Fig. 1 Superficial hyperthermia of recurrent breast cancer 1.1.2 Interstitial and Endocavitary/Intraluminal Hyperthermia Interstitial and endocavitary/intraluminal hyperthermia (IHT) methods may be used to treat tumors within or near body cavities,…