Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy

Karl Ferdinand Loewenich

Publications

• Research Article
  40/42Gy in 13 Fractions: A Safe Dose for the Brachial Plexus
  Author(s): Gabriela Studer, David Norbert Stocker, Karl Ferdinand Loewenich and Christoph GlanzmannGabriela Studer, David Norbert Stocker, Karl Ferdinand Loewenich and Christoph Glanzmann
  
  Aims: The use of hypo fractionated irradiation of the whole breast has regained much interest after the publication of the results of large randomized trials showing equivalent results as using standard fractionation (START A and B, randomized START pilot trials, Canadian trial). Due to the relatively low numbers of patients treated with hypofractionation to the supraclavicular ±axillary (S/A) region, the question of the brachial plexus tolerance continues to be discussed. Aim of this work was to assess the high grade long term tolerance of the brachial plexus in our patients treated with 13x 3.3Gy to the S/A lymph nodes, in order to contribute to the question of plexus tolerance. Materials and Methods: Between 1967 and 1977, 130 female breast cancer patients underwent postoperative hypo fractionated radiotherapy at the University Hosp.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9619.1000168

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