In recent decades, technical advances in surgery and radiotherapy, as well as
breakthroughs in the knowledge on cancer biology, have helped to substantially improve the …

Extracellular adenosine is a potent endogenous immunosuppressive mediator critical to the
maintenance of homeostasis in various normal tissues including the lung. Adenosine is …

As one of the common complications of radiotherapy, radiation pneumonia (RP) limits the
prognosis of patients. Therefore, better identifying the high-risk factors that lead to RP is …

Background and purpose Changes in lung density due to atelectasis, pleural effusion and
pneumonia/pneumonitis are observed in lung cancer patients. These changes may be an …

Background and purpose To determine whether the impact of heart dose on early overall
survival (OS) reported in RTOG 0617 could be confirmed in an independent cohort …

Background. Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) in locally advanced non-small cell
lung cancer (NSCLC) allows treatment of patients with large tumour volumes, but radiation …

Purpose To evaluate the potential of cone-beam-CT (CB-CT) guided adaptive radiotherapy
(ART) for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) for sparing of surrounding …

Background and purpose To compare functional and standard dose–volume parameters as
predictors of postradiation pulmonary toxicity in lung cancer patients undergoing curative …

Purpose To analyze associations between heart and lung dose and overall survival (OS) in
patients with esophageal cancer who received concurrent chemo-radiotherapy (CCRT) with …

Background. Adaptive strategy with daily online tumour match is a treatment option when
treating locally advanced lung cancer patients with curative intended radiotherapy (RT) …