Sentence examples for boost to the prostate from inspiring English sources

All patients randomised to receive 74 Gy had a boost to the prostate only (GTV2).

Postoperative whole-pelvis IMRT with an integrated boost to the prostate bed can be performed safely and without excessive toxicity.

Tomotherapy of the pelvic lymph nodes with a simultaneous integrated boost to the prostate can be performed safely and without excessive toxicity.

Patients randomised to the escalated dose group (74 Gy) had a phase II boost to the prostate alone, with no margin added (PTV 2).

IMRT of the pelvic lymph nodes (51.0 Gy) with a simultaneous integrated boost to the prostate bed (68.0 Gy) was performed in 34 fractions.

Published data on acute toxicity of adjuvant 3D conformal radiotherapy (3D-CRT) of the prostate bed (regular print), adjuvant intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) of the whole pelvis (WPRT) with a boost to the prostate bed (bold print) and definitive or adjuvant 3D-CRT WPRT with a boost to the prostate or prostate bed (italic print).

As there is mounting evidence that dose escalation leads to a decrease in the rate of treatment failure [ 27- 29], this combined BT and supplemental EBRT is now commonly used to provide a very conformal high-dose-boost to the prostate.

Pelvic lymph nodes are simultaneously irradiated with an integrated boost to either the prostate (PLATIN 1), the prostate and macroscopic lymph nodes (PLATIN 2), the prostate bed (PLATIN 3), the prostate bed and macroscopic lymph nodes (PLATIN 4), or to macroscopic lymph nodes in patients with prior PBRT (PLATIN 5).

The aim of this study is to evaluate the feasibility and the impact of a MRS-guided high dose rate (HDR) brachytherapy boost to the DIL in prostate cancer by comparing the radiobiological outcome of different treatment modalities in a case study of a prostate cancer patient.

Also due to some of the technical limitations of MRS the advantages of selective boost to the DIL in prostate cancer may not be fully utilised.

59 Low dose rate brachytherapy in the salvage treatment of local recurrence after RP has been shown to be technically feasible, either as single modality treatment 60 or to deliver a boost to the macroscopic disease within the prostate bed.