The evaluation of 3DRT and IMRT techniques in postoperative radiotherapy for thyroid medullary carcinoma
✍ Scribed by Dorota GABRYŚ; Iwona WESOŁOWSKA; Rafał SUWIŃSKI
- Publisher
- Wielkopolskie Centrum Onkologii
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- Polish
- Weight
- 163 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1507-1367
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## Abstract ## Background The purpose of this study is to catalog modern‐era postoperative radiotherapy (external beam radiotherapy [EBRT]) outcomes for advanced medullary thyroid cancer. ## Methods Thirty‐four consecutive patients with stage IVa–c disease were evaluated. Ten patients had recurr
## Abstract ## Background. The purpose of this study was to compare the patterns of failure focusing on the distribution of local‐regional recurrence among patients treated postoperatively with conventional radiotherapy (RT) and intensity‐modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for head and neck cancer. ##
A re-examination of the statistical methods used to develop the claim that radiation postoperatively decreases survival was carried out. This study demonstrates that a) when correct figures are used, statistical significance is not demonstrated, i.e. there is not statistically significant evidence t