Search Results - "Fiore, Maria Rosaria"
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Surgical spacer placement prior carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT): an effective feasible strategy to improve the treatment for sacral chordoma
Published in World journal of surgical oncology (09-08-2016)“…Sacral chordoma (SC) is a neoplasm arising from residual notochordal cells degeneration. SC is difficult to manage mainly because of anatomic location and…”
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Emerging treatment for chronic migraine and refractory chronic migraine
Published in Expert opinion on emerging drugs (01-09-2012)“…Chronic migraine (CM), the suffering of 15 or more headache days with at least 8 of these migraine days, afflicts 1.3% - 5.1% of the global population. CM is…”
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Fatigue During Head-And-Neck Radiotherapy: Prospective Study on 117 Consecutive Patients
Published in International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics (01-06-2007)“…Purpose: Fatigue is an underevaluated cancer-related and treatment-related symptom. We analyzed fatigue in head and neck cancer patients undergoing…”
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Design and commissioning of the non‐dedicated scanning proton beamline for ocular treatment at the synchrotron‐based CNAO facility
Published in Medical physics (Lancaster) (01-04-2019)“…Purpose Only few centers worldwide treat intraocular tumors with proton therapy, all of them with a dedicated beamline, except in one case in the USA. The…”
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Proton and carbon ion radiotherapy in skull base chordomas: a prospective study based on a dual particle and a patient-customized treatment strategy
Published in Neuro-oncology (Charlottesville, Va.) (29-09-2020)“…Abstract Background The aim of this study is to evaluate results in terms of local control (LC), overall survival (OS), and toxicity profile and to better…”
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A randomized controlled phase III study comparing hadrontherapy with carbon ions versus conventional radiotherapy - including photon and proton therapy - for the treatment of radioresistant tumors: the ETOILE trial
Published in BMC cancer (23-05-2022)“…Some cancers such as sarcomas (bone and soft tissue sarcomas) and adenoid cystic carcinomas are considered as radioresistant to low linear energy transfer…”
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Potential role of functional imaging in predicting outcome for patients treated with carbon ion therapy: a review
Published in British journal of radiology (01-12-2021)“…Carbon ion radiation therapy (CIRT) is an emerging radiation technique with advantageous physical and radiobiologic properties compared to conventional…”
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Convolutional Neural Networks Cascade for Automatic Pupil and Iris Detection in Ocular Proton Therapy
Published in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) (27-06-2021)“…Eye tracking techniques based on deep learning are rapidly spreading in a wide variety of application fields. With this study, we want to exploit the…”
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Feasibility of Carbon Ion Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Gynecological Melanoma
Published in In vivo (Athens) (01-03-2019)“…Malignant melanoma of the lower genital tract is a rare disease known to have a poor prognosis. Because of the high rate of distant metastasis and…”
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Re-irradiation With Carbon Ion Radiotherapy for Pelvic Rectal Cancer Recurrences in Patients Previously Irradiated to the Pelvis
Published in In vivo (Athens) (01-05-2020)“…Re-irradiation of locally recurrent rectal cancer poses challenges due to the proximity of critical organs, such as the bowel. This study aimed at evaluating…”
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Carbon Ion Radiotherapy in the Management of the Tumors of the Peripheral Nervous System
Published in Anticancer research (01-02-2019)“…Malignant peripheral nerve sheaths tumors (MPNST) are rare, highly aggressive and radioresistant tumors of soft tissue. Carbon ion radiotherapy (CIRT) seems to…”
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Setup Optimization in Ocular Proton Therapy at the National Centre for Oncological Hadrontherapy: Comparison of Two Approaches to Refine the Position of an Eye-Tracking Device
Published in Applied sciences (01-02-2024)“…This study describes a method for setup optimization in patient simulation for ocular proton therapy (OPT) at the National Center for Oncological Hadrontherapy…”
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Clinical Outcomes of Carbon Ion Radiation Therapy for Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors
Published in Advances in radiation oncology (01-11-2024)“…To investigate the outcome and toxicity of patients affected by malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) treated with high-dose carbon ion radiation…”
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Hadrontherapy for Thymic Epithelial Tumors: Implementation in Clinical Practice
Published in Frontiers in oncology (11-10-2021)“…Radiation therapy is part of recommendations in the adjuvant settings for advanced stage or as exclusive treatment in unresectable thymic epithelial tumors…”
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A platform for patient positioning and motion monitoring in ocular proton therapy with a non-dedicated beamline
Published in Physica medica (01-03-2019)“…•A general-purpose beamline was adapted to treat intraocular tumors with proton.•Novel strategies for patient positioning and motion monitoring were…”
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Radiation therapy for retroperitoneal sarcoma
Published in Radiologia medica (01-10-2014)“…Purpose Retroperitoneal sarcomas (RPS) are rare tumours with an annual reported incidence of 2.7 per million persons. In spite of improvements in both…”
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Role of Radiotherapy in the Treatment of Cervical Lymph Node Metastases From an Unknown Primary Site: Retrospective Analysis of 113 Patients
Published in International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics (15-11-2007)“…Purpose The management of patients with cervical lymph-node metastases from unknown primary site (UPS) remains a matter of discussion. This study aimed to…”
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Cancer Treatment-induced Oral Mucositis
Published in Anticancer research (01-03-2007)“…Oral mucositis is one of the main complications in non-surgical cancer treatments. It represents the major dose-limiting toxicity for some chemotherapeutic…”
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How LEM-based RBE and dose-averaged LET affected clinical outcomes of sacral chordoma patients treated with carbon ion radiotherapy
Published in Radiotherapy and oncology (01-10-2021)“…•RBE modeling and dose-averaged LET distributions can affect treatment outcomes of CIRT.•The large size of sacral chordomas increases RBE modeling related…”
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1883: Benefits and limitations of LETd optimization for carbon ion radiotherapy in sacral chordomas
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