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In conclusion treatment acceleration can provide better local control in the postoperative radiotherapy of locally advanced HNC suggesting that repopulation is an important determinant of treatment outcome.

Numerous studies have demonstrated that intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) can reduce radiation toxicity and achieve better local control in patients with NPC [ 2, 3].

The possible explanation for better local control in patients with non-CRC metastases than CRC metastases may be that most patients with CRC liver metastases have been heavily treated with systemic and other local treatments before SABR [ 35].

There is ongoing discussion regarding the need for improvement in APE surgical techniques for better local control in order to improve outcome and possibly to reduce the need for preoperative radiotherapy[ 9, 25].

Postoperative radiotherapy (RT) has been used to achieve better local control in patients with primary or recurrent PVNS (O'Sullivan et al. 1995, Blanco et al. 2001, Chin et a. 2002, Lee et al. 2005, Berger et al. 2007, Horoschak et al. 2009, Heyd et al. 2010).

The aim of this study is to find out, whether the biological advantages of carbon ion therapy can also be clinically confirmed and translated into the better local control rates in the treatment of skull base chordomas.

They found that compared with conventional postoperative radiotherapy, HF-RT delivered better local control and survival; in particular, HF-RT resulted in 1- and 3-year DSS rates of 73 and 33%%, respectively.

In this report, we investigated whether hyperfractionated radiotherapy (HFRT) and concomitant chemotherapy (CCT) could achieve better local control and survival in NPC patients with T3 and T4 lesions.

In comparison to preoperative radiotherapy (RT) alone, the results of two randomized trials, the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer 22921 trial and the Fédération Francophone de Cancérologie Digestive 92933 trial, have demonstrated that adding fluorouracil-based chemotherapy to RT preoperatively can achieve better local control and downstaging in LARC [ 3, 4].

Higher doses per fraction radiation can result in better local control but, dependent on tumor location or when re-treatment is needed, can be limited by toxicity (Senthi et al, 2012).

Although not significant, a trend towards better local control could be observed in the high dose TM-ILP group.