Analysis of Failures after Whole Abdominal Irradiation in Gastrointestinal Lympomas

Abstract

General prophylactic enclosure of the inguinal lymph nodes in the case of whole abdominal irradiation in gastrointestinal lymphoma seems to be unnecessary.

Centroblastic-Centrocytic Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Stage I–III: Patterns of Failure Following Radiotherapy

“…The relapse rate after these rather low radiation doses also indicates a possible dose-effect correlation. Also Reinartz et al [37] reported the importance of adequate radiation doses for local tumor control in the treatment of (exclusively) lowgrade gastrointestinal NHL.…”

Helical Tomotherapy as a New Treatment Technique for Whole Abdominal Irradiation

“…Since the fields are usually very large (40 cm × 30 cm or larger), most patients experience severe side effects, especially myelosuppression. Many of the randomized trials comparing WAI and chemotherapy failed to show a statistically significant difference in overall survival, mainly because of disruption of radiation treatment due to hematologic toxicity [7,20,21].…”

Aktuarische Auswertung von Zeit-Ereignis-Daten und ihre Bedeutung bei der Beurteilung von Resultaten Qualitätsanalyse der Zeitschrift “Strahlentherapie und Onkologie”

“…Der zeitliche Verlauf der Anzahl der Patienten im Risiko wurde in 22 dieser 45 Arbeiten (49%; 95%-Konfidenzintervall: 33 bis 65%) dokumentiert [15, 17, 19, 28, 30-32, 64, 69-71, 96, 108, 118, 131, 137, 139, 149, 156, 163, 169, 177]. In ebenfalls elf Arbeiten wurden die Ergebnisse lediglich nicht aktuarisch ("crude") ausgewertet [5,24,72,77,81,128,132,144,150,151,153]. In zwei Arbeiten [22,25] Table 2.…”