Models for the risk of secondary cancers from radiation therapy

A Dasu, I Toma-Dasu - Physica Medica, 2017 - Elsevier
The interest in the induction of secondary tumours following radiotherapy has greatly
increased as developments in detecting and treating the primary tumours have improved the …

Dynamic collimator trajectory algorithm for multiple metastases dynamic conformal arc treatment planning

RL MacDonald, CG Thomas, A Syme - Medical physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To develop an algorithm for dynamic collimator positioning to optimize beam's eye
view (BEV) fitting of targets in dynamic conformal arc (DCA)‐based radiotherapy …

Low molecular weight fucoidan prevents radiation-induced fibrosis and secondary tumors in a zebrafish model

SY Wu, WY Yang, CC Cheng, MC Hsiao, SL Tsai… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Radiotherapy often causes unwanted side effects such as radiation-induced fibrosis and
second malignancies. Fucoidan, a sulfated polysaccharide extracted from brown seaweed …

Comparing second cancer risk for multiple radiotherapy modalities in survivors of hodgkin lymphoma

C Timlin, J Loken, J Kruse, R Miller… - The British journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objectives: To assess if excess absolute risk (EAR) of radiation-induced solid cancer can be
used to rank radiotherapy plans for treatment of Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) in a statistically …

Intra‐arc binary collimation algorithm for the optimization of stereotactic radiotherapy treatment of multiple metastases with multiple prescriptions

RL MacDonald, CG Thomas, L Ward… - Medical physics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To design and implement a novel treatment planning algorithm based on a
modification of dynamic conformal arc (DCA) therapy for the treatment of multiple cranial …

[图书][B] Practical radiobiology for proton therapy planning

B Jones - 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Practical Radiobiology for Proton Therapy Planning covers the principles, advantages and
potential pitfalls that occur in proton therapy, especially its radiobiological modelling …

Risk of contralateral breast and ipsilateral lung cancer induction from forward-planned IMRT for breast carcinoma

M Mazonakis, J Stratakis, E Lyraraki, J Damilakis - Physica Medica, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose To assess the risk of contralateral breast and ipsilateral lung cancer induction from
forward-planned IMRT for breast carcinoma. Methods The study group included 13 females …

Neutrons in proton pencil beam scanning: parameterization of energy, quality factors and RBE

U Schneider, RA Hälg, G Baiocco… - Physics in Medicine & …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The biological effectiveness of neutrons produced during proton therapy in inducing cancer
is unknown, but potentially large. In particular, since neutron biological effectiveness is …

Age at exposure and attained age variations of cancer risk in the Japanese A‐bomb and radiotherapy cohorts

U Schneider, L Walsh - Medical physics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: Phenomenological risk models for radiation‐induced cancer are frequently applied
to estimate the risk of radiation‐induced cancers at radiotherapy doses. Such models often …

The influence of inter-fractional anatomy variation on secondary cancer risk estimates following radiotherapy

CH Stokkevåg, GM Engeseth, LB Hysing… - Physica Medica, 2017 - Elsevier
Purpose In silico studies comparing estimated risks of radiation-induced secondary cancer
(SC) are frequently performed in assessment of radiotherapy techniques. Since inter-patient …