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ReviewClinical and translational radiation oncology2017

The clinical target volume in lung, head-and-neck, and esophageal cancer: Lessons from pathological measurement and recurrence analysis.

Rudi Apolle, Maximilian Rehm, Thomas Bortfeld, Michael Baumann, Esther G C Troost

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Review in Clinical and translational radiation oncology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Correlation of microscopic tumor extension with tumor microenvironment in esophageal cancer patients.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2024
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  2. Translational Frontiers and Clinical Opportunities of Immunologically Fitted Radiotherapy.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Rudi ApolleHelmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiooncology - OncoRay, Dresden, Germany.
Maximilian RehmOncoRay - National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology, Dresden, Germany.
Thomas BortfeldDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Michael BaumannHelmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiooncology - OncoRay, Dresden, Germany.
Esther G C TroostHelmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Institute of Radiooncology - OncoRay, Dresden, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Radiotherapy research has achieved remarkable progress in target volume definition. Advances in medical imaging facilitate more precise localization of the gross tumor volume, alongside a more detailed understanding of the geometric uncertainties associated with treatment delivery that has enabled robust safety margins to be customized to the specific treatment scenario at hand. By contrast, the clinical target volume, meant to encompass gross tumor, as well as, adjacent sub-clinical disease, has evolved very little. It is more often defined by clinician experience and institutional convention than on a patient-specific basis. This disparity arises from the inherent invisibility of sub-clinical disease in current medical imaging. Its incidence and expanse can only be ascertained via indirect means. This article reviews two such strategies: histopathological measurements on resection specimen and analyses of locoregional recurrences after radiotherapy.

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Adaptive radiotherapyClinical target volumeMicroscopic tumor extensionParticle beam irradiation

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PMID29658006
PMCPMC5893525

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