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| Mia VoordeckersSummaryAffiliation: Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel Country: Belgium Publications
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Parotid gland sparing with helical tomotherapy in head-and-neck cancerMia Voordeckers
Department of Radiation Oncology, UZ Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 84:443-8. 2012..This study evaluated the ability of helical tomotherapy to spare the function of the parotid glands in patients with head-and-neck cancer by analyzing dose-volume histograms, salivary gland scintigraphy, and quality of life assessment...
Longitudinal assessment of parotid function in patients receiving tomotherapy for head-and-neck cancerMia Voordeckers
Department of Radiotherapy, Oncologic Center UZ Brussel, Jette, Belgium
Strahlenther Onkol 184:400-5. 2008..The study aims to investigate the potential of helical tomotherapy (Hi-Art Tomotherapy) to preserve parotid function in head-and-neck cancer patients...- Survival benefit with radiation therapy in node-positive breast carcinoma patientsMia Voordeckers
Department of Radiotherapy, Oncologic Center UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Strahlenther Onkol 185:656-62. 2009..The authors investigated whether postoperative RT provides a survival benefit for pT1-2 pN+ breast cancer patients... - Statistical interaction in the survival analysis of early breast cancer using registry data: role of breast conserving surgery and radiotherapyVincent Vinh-Hung
Oncology Center, Academic Hospital, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Jette, Belgium
Tumori 91:9-14. 2005..To identify subgroup effects that might influence the survival results of postoperative radiotherapy... - Adjuvant radiotherapy after mastectomy for pT1-pT2 node negative (pN0) breast cancer: is it worth the effort?Mia Voordeckers
Department of Radiotherapy, Academic Hospital V U B, Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Jette, Brussels, Belgium
Radiother Oncol 68:227-31. 2003..Since little data on the importance of RT in this subgroup are known, we reviewed the clinical records with regard to overall survival... - Functional form of the effect of the numbers of axillary nodes on survival in early breast cancerVincent Vinh-Hung
Department of Radiotherapy, Oncologisch Centrum, AZ VUB, B 1090 Jette, Belgium
Int J Oncol 22:697-704. 2003..Even when the number of involved nodes is already large, each additional involved node increases the relative mortality hazard by at least 1.3%... 
Ratios of involved nodes in early breast cancerVincent Vinh-Hung
Oncology Center, Academic Hospital, AZ VUB, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Jette, Belgium
Breast Cancer Res 6:R680-8. 2004....- The lymph node ratio as prognostic factor in node-positive breast cancerMia Voordeckers
Department of Radiotherapy, Academic Hospital V.U.B, Laarbeeklaan 101, Brussels, Belgium
Radiother Oncol 70:225-30. 2004..The nodes ratio improved on the absolute numbers of involved axillary lymph nodes for assessment of prognosis... - Scapula alata in early breast cancer patients enrolled in a randomized clinical trial of post-surgery short-course image-guided radiotherapyNele Adriaenssens
Breast Clinic, Oncologic Surgery, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Brussels, Belgium
World J Surg Oncol 10:86. 2012..We evaluated the risk factors associated with SA and the relationship of SA with ipsilateral shoulder/arm morbidity in a series of patients enrolled in a trial of post-surgery radiotherapy (RT)... - Pattern of failure after helical tomotherapy in head and neck cancerAshraf Farrag
Department of Radiation Oncology, Oncologic Center UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Strahlenther Onkol 186:511-6. 2010..Treatment failure patterns in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients treated with HT were analyzed... - Health-related quality of life in survivors of stage I-II breast cancer: randomized trial of post-operative conventional radiotherapy and hypofractionated tomotherapyHarijati Versmessen
Department of Radiation Oncology, UZ Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Jette, Brussels, Belgium
BMC Cancer 12:495. 2012..Tomotherapy uses an integrated computed tomography scanner to improve treatment accuracy, aiming to reduce the adverse effects of radiotherapy... - Can 18-FDG-PET during radiotherapy replace post-therapy scanning for detection/demonstration of tumor response in head-and-neck cancer?Gaetane Ceulemans
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 81:938-42. 2011..In routine practice, the tumor response in head-and-neck cancer (HNC) is assessed 3-4 months after radiotherapy (RT). We compared the results of fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) during (47 Gy) and 4 months after RT... - Effect of the number of uninvolved nodes on survival in early breast cancerVincent Vinh-Hung
Department of Radiotherapy, Oncologisch Centrum, AZ VUB, B 1090 Jette, Belgium
Oncol Rep 10:363-8. 2003..The incidental finding that ratio-based characterization of node involvement might be a prognostic factor will be further investigated... - An assessment of the use of skin flashes in helical tomotherapy using phantom and in-vivo dosimetryKoen Tournel
Radiotherapy Department, Oncology Center, Brussels, Belgium
Radiother Oncol 84:34-9. 2007..However, positioning errors or changes in the patient's contour can influence the correct dosage in these regions. This work studies the behavior of skin-flash regions using phantom and in-vivo dosimetry... - Evaluation of dose calculation algorithms for dynamic arc treatments of head and neck tumorsNadine Linthout
Department of Radiotherapy, Oncology Center, Academic Hospital, Free University Brussels (AZ-VUB, Laarbeeklaan 101, B-1090 Brussels, Belgium
Radiother Oncol 64:85-95. 2002..Care needs to be taken in clinical cases where it is critical to irradiate the air-tissue boundary to a sufficient dose... - Can 18F-FDG-PET response during radiotherapy be used as a predictive factor for the outcome of head and neck cancer patients?Ashraf Farrag
Department of aRadiation oncology, Oncologic Center UZ Brussel, Laarbeeklaan, Brussels, Belgium
Nucl Med Commun 31:495-501. 2010..We investigated if (18F) fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (F-FDG-PET) during radiotherapy or concurrent chemoradiotherapy adds information about the treatment outcome compared with an FDG-PET study before treatment... - Early contralateral shoulder-arm morbidity in breast cancer patients enrolled in a randomized trial of post-surgery radiation therapyNele Adriaenssens
Breast Clinic, Oncological Surgery, UZ Brussel, Laarbeeklaan 101, 1090 Brussels, Belgium
Breast Cancer (Auckl) 6:79-93. 2012..Shoulder/arm morbidity is a common complication of breast cancer surgery and radiotherapy (RT), but little is known about acute contralateral morbidity...