Radiotherapy Employing Three Fractions on Each of Twelve Consecutive Days
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Acta Oncologica
- Vol. 27 (2), 163-167
- https://doi.org/10.3109/02841868809090336
Abstract
In order to achieve the greatest advantage of accelerated hyperfractionated radiotherapy, treatment has been given 3 times each day for 12 consecutive days without a rest period. A total tumour dose of 50.4 Gy was well tolerated in a series of 38 patients with bronchial, head and neck and oesophageal carcinomas. A further 14 patients have now received an elevated dose of 54 Gy, again with satisfactory tolerance. The tumour responses at all these sites have been very promising and further work is proceeding.Keywords
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