Long-term outcomes of IMRT for breast cancer: a single-institution cohort analysis.

Purpose: To evaluate long-term outcomes of adjuvant breast intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), with a comparison cohort receiving conventional radiation (cRT) during the same period.

Methods And Materials: Retrospective review identified patients with Stages 0-III breast cancer who underwent irradiation after conservative surgery from January 1999 to December 2003. Computed tomography simulation was used to design standard tangential breast fields with enhanced dynamic wedges for cRT and both enhanced dynamic wedges and dynamic multileaf collimators for IMRT.

Quality assurance for computed-tomography simulators and the computed-tomography-simulation process: report of the AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee Task Group No. 66.

This document presents recommendations of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) for quality assurance of computed-tomography- (CT) simulators and CT-simulation process. This report was prepared by Task Group No. 66 of the AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee.

Results of interstitial brachytherapy for malignant brain tumors.

We evaluated the efficacy of brachytherapy in patients with malignant brain tumors and assessed the factors associated with longer disease control after treatment. From June 1989 to October 1995, 73 patients were treated with stereotactic brachytherapy with temporary placement of iodine-125 implants. The median age was 52 (range 9-79).