Purpose To determine whether adding 2 years of androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) improved
outcome for patients electively treated with ADT before and during radiation therapy (RT…

The volume, distribution, and mobility of opacified pelvic small bowel (PSB) were determined
by fluoroscopy and orthogonal radiographs in 150 consecutive patients undergoing pelvic …

THE increase in volume or size with time that characterises many biological and physical
systems is often well approximated retrospectively by mathematical ‘growth curves’. In some …

Purpose Trial RTOG 9202 was a phase 3 randomized trial designed to determine the optimal
duration of androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) when combined with definitive radiation …

Clinical evaluation of 10 patients with small cell carcinoma of the lung treated with radiotherapy
and periodic cycles of combination chemotherapy with cyclophosphamide, vincristine, …

IN recent reports, Powell et al. described nonparathyroid humoral hypercalcemia in patients
with neoplastic disease, 1 and Tashjian and his colleagues have suggested the possible …

The safety of prophylactic cranial irradiation (PCI) has recently been questioned, based on
reports of computerized tomographic abnormalities mainly seen in children, who received …

The purpose of this study was to correlate serum vitamin D levels with potential clinical
variables and to determine the extent of vitamin D deficiency in a large, outpatient oncology …

Excerpt To the editor: Severe cardiomyopathy with irreversible congestive heart failure from
adriamycin is very rare if the dose is limited to below 500 to 550 mg/m 2 body surface area (1…

Excerpt The pleomorphism of lung cancer is well known and the appearance of histologically
well and poorly differentiated areas within a tissue specimen, or even the coexistence of …