item: #1 of 45 id: ijcto-114 author: Mikell, Justin; The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.; Mourtada, Firas; Christiana Care, Newark, DE, USA.; Mahvash, Armeen; The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.; Kappadath, S Cheenu; The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. title: Characterization of tumor dose heterogeneity for 90Y microsphere therapies using voxel- based dosimetry date: 2014-04-09 words: 900 flesch: 66 summary: Our objective is to calculate tumor dose heterogeneity, known to effect re- sponse, using voxel-based dosimetry and investigate the lim- itations of SM and PM. Characterization of tumor dose heterogeneity for 90Y microsphere therapies using voxel- based dosimetry. keywords: dose; mean; tumor cache: ijcto-114.pdf plain text: ijcto-114.txt item: #2 of 45 id: ijcto-119 author: None title: ijcto-119 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-119.htm plain text: ijcto-119.txt item: #3 of 45 id: ijcto-121 author: Stauduhar, Paul J; The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.; Jones, Aaron Kyle; The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA. title: Are output measurements always necessary after CT tube replacement? date: 2014-04-09 words: 746 flesch: 54 summary: To simulate output changes, we acquired phantom images with our QC protocol while manually changing output (mA). Values in the top row highlighted green indicate output changes that are within +/-15% manufacturer limits, values highlighted in red fall outside limits. keywords: noise; output cache: ijcto-121.pdf plain text: ijcto-121.txt item: #4 of 45 id: ijcto-129 author: Gill, Sukhdeep; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio, USA. title: Treatment planning for the lung cancer date: 2014-03-16 words: 1876 flesch: 52 summary: Rana S, Rogers K, Pokharel S, Cheng C. Evaluation of Acuros XB algorithm based on RTOG 0813 do- simetric criteria for SBRT lung treatment with RapidArc. Dose to the target volume was found to be similar in the VMAT and IMRT plans.3-5 The variation in the reported results from various studies on lung cancer 1-7 can be attributed to different factors such as plan optimization technique, experience of the treatment planner, treatment volume margins, dose prescription, loca- tion of the tumor, and dose calculation algorithms. keywords: cancer; dose; lung; plans; treatment; vmat cache: ijcto-129.pdf plain text: ijcto-129.txt item: #5 of 45 id: ijcto-13 author: None title: ijcto-13 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-13.htm plain text: ijcto-13.txt item: #6 of 45 id: ijcto-154 author: None title: ijcto-154 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-154.htm plain text: ijcto-154.txt item: #7 of 45 id: ijcto-167 author: Office, Editorial; International Journal of Cancer Therapy and Oncology (IJCTO) title: High Impact Papers from September – October, 2013 (Issue 1) date: 2014-08-16 words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-167.pdf plain text: ijcto-167.txt item: #8 of 45 id: ijcto-170 author: None title: ijcto-170 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-170.htm plain text: ijcto-170.txt item: #9 of 45 id: ijcto-172 author: None title: ijcto-172 date: 2014-10-21 words: 4085 flesch: 56 summary: In this study, x-ray radiation was measured in a series of square projections from x-ray source by means of an ion chamber based survey meter. It is very important to verify the isotropy, kVp and mAs meas- urements, quality index, isodose, reproducibility, linearity, depth dose measurements, and 3D dose distribution along with manufacturer recommended tests. keywords: dose; isotropy; measurements; probe; quality; radiation; source; system; test; xrs cache: ijcto-172.htm plain text: ijcto-172.txt item: #10 of 45 id: ijcto-183 author: None title: ijcto-183 date: 2014-10-22 words: 4837 flesch: 57 summary: Kunnanchath et al.25 have showed good agreement in comparison of Eclipse TPS calculated vs COMPASS calcu- lated with average dose difference less than 1% and average gamma less than 0.5 for PTV and OAR’s of 10 head and neck and 10 pelvis IMRT plans. For same patients, point dose difference from ion chamber and 2D gamma from planar dosimetry were listed. keywords: compass; difference; dose; gamma; patient; ptv; system; tps; treatment cache: ijcto-183.htm plain text: ijcto-183.txt item: #11 of 45 id: ijcto-234 author: None title: ijcto-234 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-234.htm plain text: ijcto-234.txt item: #12 of 45 id: ijcto-236 author: None title: ijcto-236 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-236.htm plain text: ijcto-236.txt item: #13 of 45 id: ijcto-240 author: None title: ijcto-240 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-240.htm plain text: ijcto-240.txt item: #14 of 45 id: ijcto-242 author: None title: ijcto-242 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-242.htm plain text: ijcto-242.txt item: #15 of 45 id: ijcto-260 author: None title: ijcto-260 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-260.htm plain text: ijcto-260.txt item: #16 of 45 id: ijcto-280 author: None title: ijcto-280 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-280.htm plain text: ijcto-280.txt item: #17 of 45 id: ijcto-281 author: None title: ijcto-281 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-281.htm plain text: ijcto-281.txt item: #18 of 45 id: ijcto-283 author: Mhiri, Aida; Department of Nuclear Medicine, Salah Azaiez Institute, Tunis; Slim, Ihsen; Department of Nuclear Medicine, Salah Azaiez Institute, Tunis; Slimène, Mohamed; Department of Nuclear Medicine, Salah Azaiez Institute, Tunis title: Dosimetry estimation of SPECT/CT for iodine 123-labeled metaiodobenzylguanidine in children date: 2015-03-29 words: 2109 flesch: 50 summary: In fact, according to literature data SPECT/CT compared to SPECT alone causes more radiation to the patient which is not sufficient to cause deterministic effects.2, 4, 5, 6 For SPECT effective dose depends on adminis- tered activity and patient’s age. This paper was reviewed and accepted by the scientific committee of the 4th African Regional IRPA congress] Conference Proceeding Abstract Purpose: To evaluate the additional radiation exposure in terms of effective dose incurred by patients in the CT (computed to- mography) portion of 123I-MIBG (123II-metaiodobenzylguanidine) study with SPECT/CT (Single photon emission computed tomography associated to computed tomography) in some pediatric patients of our department. keywords: dose; dosimetry; patient; radiation; spect; tube cache: ijcto-283.pdf plain text: ijcto-283.txt item: #19 of 45 id: ijcto-287 author: None title: ijcto-287 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-287.htm plain text: ijcto-287.txt item: #20 of 45 id: ijcto-30 author: None title: ijcto-30 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-30.htm plain text: ijcto-30.txt item: #21 of 45 id: ijcto-307 author: Lingegowda, Appaji; Department of Pediatric Oncology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore; Kuntegowdenahalli, Lakshmaiah; Department of Medical Oncology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore; Komaranchath, Ashok; Department of Medical Oncology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore; Devi, Lakshmi; Department of Pathology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore; Kumari, Prasanna; Department of Pathology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore; Kamath, Mangesh; Department of Medical Oncology, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology, Bangalore title: An analysis of the demographic profile, clinical manifestations, investigations and outcome of paediatric myelodysplastic syndrome: A single centre, cross-sectional study date: 2015-06-04 words: 3543 flesch: 50 summary: Results: Out of 1094 cases of pediatric hematological malignancies presenting at our institute within the study period, there were only seven cases of pediatric MDS with an incidence of 0.65%. Epidemiological data for pediatric MDS is limited not only because it is relatively rare, but also because of the difficulty in diagnosis as well as classification. keywords: cases; mds; myelodysplastic; patients; pediatric; syndrome cache: ijcto-307.pdf plain text: ijcto-307.txt item: #22 of 45 id: ijcto-31 author: None title: ijcto-31 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-31.htm plain text: ijcto-31.txt item: #23 of 45 id: ijcto-327 author: Office, Editorial title: High Impact Papers from January – March, 2014 date: 2015-03-29 words: 589 flesch: 41 summary: Int J Cancer Ther Oncol 2014; 2(1):020116. Int J Cancer Ther Oncol 2014; 2(1):020110. DOI: 10.14319/ijcto.0201.10 Read Download Citations 3. keywords: impact cache: ijcto-327.pdf plain text: ijcto-327.txt item: #24 of 45 id: ijcto-336 author: None title: ijcto-336 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-336.htm plain text: ijcto-336.txt item: #25 of 45 id: ijcto-350 author: Salvador-Coloma, Carmen; Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia; Bennis, Mohamed; Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital de Xativa, Valencia; Díez Langhetée, Lydia; Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia; Niño Gómez, Óscar; Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia; Reche Santos, Encarnación; Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia; Juan Vidal, Óscar; Department of Medical Oncology, Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia title: Intestinal pseudo-obstruction: An important diagnostic challenge date: 2015-06-09 words: 2175 flesch: 48 summary: A paraneoplastic syndrome causing abnormal changes in gastrointestinal motility can be the first signs of small cell lung cancer. With the diagnosis of small cell lung cancer with disease limited to the thorax, the patient was started on cispla- tin/etoposide-based chemotherapy with concomitant radio- therapy. keywords: anti; cancer; cell; lung; obstruction; paraneoplastic; patient; pseudo cache: ijcto-350.pdf plain text: ijcto-350.txt item: #26 of 45 id: ijcto-359 author: None title: ijcto-359 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-359.htm plain text: ijcto-359.txt item: #27 of 45 id: ijcto-367 author: None title: ijcto-367 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-367.htm plain text: ijcto-367.txt item: #28 of 45 id: ijcto-387 author: Tesfamicael, Biniam; Department of Radiation Oncology, McLaren Regional Medical Center, Flint, Michigan; Gueye, Paul; Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia; Avery, Stephen; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Lyons, Donald; Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mahesh, Mahadevappa; Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland title: A portable secondary dose monitoring system using scintillating fibers for proton therapy of prostate cancer: A Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation study date: 2016-02-12 words: 4825 flesch: 53 summary: Such setup results in more interaction points inside thedistal block fibers, hence giving a clear image of thegeometry of the fibers. ISSN 2330-4049 A portable secondary dose monitoring system using scintillating fibers for proton therapy of prostate cancer: A Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation study Biniam Tesfamicael1, Paul Gueye2, Stephen Avery3, Donald Lyons3, Mahadevappa Mahesh4 1Department of Radiation Oncology, McLaren Regional Medical Center, Flint, Michigan, USA 2Department of Physics, Hampton University, Hampton, Virginia, USA 3Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 4Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USAReceived July 05, 2015; Revised January 29, 2016; Accepted February 07, 2016; Published Online February 12, 2016 Original Article Abstract Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to monitor the secondary dosedistribution originating from a water phantom during proton therapy of prostatecancer using scintillating fibers. keywords: beam; block; cancer; dose; energy; fibers; figure; prostate; proton; proton therapy; therapy cache: ijcto-387.pdf plain text: ijcto-387.txt item: #29 of 45 id: ijcto-401 author: None title: ijcto-401 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-401.htm plain text: ijcto-401.txt item: #30 of 45 id: ijcto-411 author: Patel, Shyamal; Department of Radiation Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York; Mourad, Waleed; Department of Radiation Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York; Patel, Rajal; Department of Radiation Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York; Kabarriti, Rafi; Department of Radiation Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York; Young, Rebekah; Department of Radiation Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York; Yaparpalvi, Ravi; Department of Radiation Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York; Hong, Linda; Department of Radiation Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York; LaSala, Patrick; Department of Neurosurgery, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York; Guha, Chandan; Department of Radiation Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York; Kalnicki, Shalom; Department of Radiation Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York; Garg, Madhur; Department of Radiation Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York title: The role of pre- and post-SRS systemic therapy in patients with NSCLC brain metastases date: 2015-12-07 words: 4714 flesch: 43 summary: Our results also suggest that delaying theinitiation of systemic therapy after SRS to >30 days maypotentially improve survival, even in patients withsynchronous metastases. ISSN 2330-4049 The use of systemic therapy (chemotherapy or targetedtherapies) in patients with brain metastases from lungcancer has also been examined.8,13 keywords: brain; cancer; disease; lung; metastases; patients; posst; pts; spi; srs; survival; systemic; therapy cache: ijcto-411.pdf plain text: ijcto-411.txt item: #31 of 45 id: ijcto-418 author: None title: ijcto-418 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-418.htm plain text: ijcto-418.txt item: #32 of 45 id: ijcto-470 author: None title: ijcto-470 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-470.htm plain text: ijcto-470.txt item: #33 of 45 id: ijcto-488 author: None title: ijcto-488 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-488.htm plain text: ijcto-488.txt item: #34 of 45 id: ijcto-522 author: None title: ijcto-522 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-522.htm plain text: ijcto-522.txt item: #35 of 45 id: ijcto-532 author: Davis, Keith R.; Biotechnology Program, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana; Inaba, Jun-ichi; Owensboro Cancer Research, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky title: Lunasin—a multifunctional anticancer peptide from soybean date: 2016-06-30 words: 2319 flesch: 35 summary: Lunasin sensitivityin non-small cell lung cancer cells is linked tosuppression of integrin signaling and changes inhistone acetylation. This represents the first clear demonstration that lunasin’s ability to inhibitproliferation in NSCLC cells requires an v- containingintegrin. keywords: cancer; cell; davis; inhibition; integrin; lunasin; lung; nsclc; studies cache: ijcto-532.pdf plain text: ijcto-532.txt item: #36 of 45 id: ijcto-575 author: Parkin, Edward title: ijcto-575 date: 2016-07-12 words: 16 flesch: 10 summary: Suggested reviewers: Prof. Anthony Turner University of Leeds a.j.turner@leeds.ac.uk Dr. Daniel Lambert University of Sheffield D.W.Lambert@sheffield.ac.uk keywords: university cache: ijcto-575.docx plain text: ijcto-575.txt item: #37 of 45 id: ijcto-597 author: None title: ijcto-597 date: 2017-01-04 words: 1602 flesch: 45 summary: Keywords: Malignant melanoma, Brain metastases, Long-term survival,Unresectable brain metastases 1. Hall WA, Djalilian HR, Nussbaum ES, et al. keywords: brain; melanoma; metastases; survival cache: ijcto-597.htm plain text: ijcto-597.txt item: #38 of 45 id: ijcto-6 author: Pokharel, Shyam; Department of Medical Physics, Premier Oncology, Florida, USA. title: Dosimetric impact of mixed-energy volumetric modulated arc therapy plans for high-risk prostate cancer date: 2013-08-31 words: 3721 flesch: 64 summary: ISSN 2330-4049 5 The use of lower energy photon beams generally minimizes the head leakage, internal scatter, and secondary neutrons.2-7 However, the low-energy photon beams also requires greater number of MUs to deposit high doses in the area peripheral to the target, resulting increase in the integral dose and radi- ation exposure to the OARs.4 The optimized SEPs and MEPs plans were calculated with the anisotropic analytical algorithm (AAA), version 11.1, using dose calculation grid size of 2.5 mm. keywords: cancer; dose; energy; meps; plans; seps; volume cache: ijcto-6.pdf plain text: ijcto-6.txt item: #39 of 45 id: ijcto-603 author: None title: ijcto-603 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-603.htm plain text: ijcto-603.txt item: #40 of 45 id: ijcto-61 author: Sherwani, Rana; Department of Pathology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India; Akhtar, Kafil; Department of Pathology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India; Ray, Prasenjit S; Department of Pathology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India; Ahmad, Sayed S; Department of Oral Maxillo-facial Surgery, Sir Ziauddin Dental College, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India. title: Nasal glioma with psammomatous calcification- An unusual presentation date: 2014-04-09 words: 2160 flesch: 49 summary: Received January 14, 2014; Revised March 18, 2014; Accepted March 20, 2014; Published Online April 09, 2014 Case Report Abstract Congenital midline swellings of nose are encountered rarely, and nasal gliomas constitute about 5% of such lesions. The mainstay of treatment is conservative sur gi- cal excision because nasal gliomas are slow-growing, rarely recurrent, and have no malignant potential. keywords: case; glioma; mass; nasal; tissue cache: ijcto-61.pdf plain text: ijcto-61.txt item: #41 of 45 id: ijcto-640 author: None title: ijcto-640 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-640.htm plain text: ijcto-640.txt item: #42 of 45 id: ijcto-641 author: None title: ijcto-641 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-641.htm plain text: ijcto-641.txt item: #43 of 45 id: ijcto-72 author: None title: ijcto-72 date: None words: 3 flesch: 34 summary: Database connection failed! keywords: database cache: ijcto-72.htm plain text: ijcto-72.txt item: #44 of 45 id: ijcto-839 author: Dagne, Getachew; University of South Florida; Odedina, Folakemi; Aime, Nickyjeanna; Young, Mary Ellen title: Area-level factors associated with spatial variation of prostate cancer incidence for black men date: 2017-12-24 words: 3287 flesch: 44 summary: Although not statistically significant atcounty level, median income, percentage of overweight,percentage of current smoking status, community watersupply per capita, percentage of Blacks, percentage ofmedical checkup, percentage of persons consuming twoor more fruits daily, high school graduation, andpercentage of rural residents have positive associationwith prostate cancer incidence. Conclusion: Our findings showedthat indicators of socioeconomic status and accessibility of health care servicessuch as poverty, unemployment and health care providers are important variable sthat explain spatial variation of prostate cancer incidence rates of Black Men. keywords: cancer; cap; cases; county; florida; incidence; level; men; prostate; risk; spatial cache: ijcto-839.pdf plain text: ijcto-839.txt item: #45 of 45 id: ijcto-9 author: None title: ijcto-9 date: 2014-03-16 words: 1519 flesch: 39 summary: Desai MM, Berger AK, BrandinaRRet al. Robot- ic and laparoscopic high extended pelvic lymph node dissection during radical cystectomy: tech- nique and outcomes. Impaired cardiopul- monary reserve in an elderly population is related to postoperative morbidity and length of hospital stay after radical cystectomy. keywords: cystectomy; lymph; node; robotic; rrc; vasdev cache: ijcto-9.htm plain text: ijcto-9.txt