Publications by authors named "Gabriele Holl"

Introduction: The success of intensification and personalisation of the curative treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is strongly associated with the precision in radiotherapy. Here, we evaluate the impact of radiotherapy protocol adherence in a prospective multicentre trial.

Methods: In the open-label, randomised, controlled PET-Plan trial, patients with inoperable NSCLC were randomized at a 1:1 ratio regarding the target volume delineation informed by F-FDG PET and CT plus elective nodal irradiation (arm A) or target volumes informed by PET alone (arm B) and received iso-toxically dose-escalated concurrent chemoradiation.

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(1) Background: The optimal chemotherapy (CHT) regimen for concurrent chemoradiation (cCRT) is not well defined. In this secondary analysis of the international randomized PET-Plan trial, we evaluate the efficacy of different CHT. (2) Methods: Patients with inoperable NSCLC were randomized at a 1:1 ratio regarding the target volume definition and received isotoxically dose-escalated cCRT using cisplatin 80 mg/m (day 1, 22) and vinorelbin 15 mg/m (day 1, 8, 22, 29) (P1) or cisplatin 20 mg/m (day 1-5, 29-33) and vinorelbin 12.

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Background: With increasingly precise radiotherapy and advanced medical imaging, the concept of radiotherapy target volume planning might be redefined with the aim of improving outcomes. We aimed to investigate whether target volume reduction is feasible and effective compared with conventional planning in the context of radical chemoradiotherapy for patients with locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer.

Methods: We did a multicentre, open-label, randomised, controlled trial (PET-Plan; ARO-2009-09) in 24 centres in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.

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Purpose: Oncologic imaging is a key for successful cancer treatment. While the quality assurance (QA) of image acquisition protocols has already been focussed, QA of reading and reporting offers still room for improvement. The latter was addressed in the context of a prospective multicentre trial on fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG)-positron-emission tomography (PET)/CT-based chemoradiotherapy for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

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The current literature was reviewed for articles focusing on radioguided surgery in urological malignancies.In penile cancer sentinel lymph node dissection is part of international guidelines. By detailed histopathological analysis (serial sections, immunohistochemical staining) more micrometastases are detectable improving the histopathological staging.

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Objective: To investigate the reliability of preoperative diagnostics in predicting the true histopathological stage and grade of prostate cancer, and to examine whether lymph node (LN) metastases in unilateral prostate cancer are located unilaterally and therefore whether it is justified to dissect only the ipsilateral LNs in presumed unilateral disease.

Patients And Methods: LN metastases in clinically localized prostate cancer are often located near the internal iliac vessels. They will be detected by extended or sentinel pelvic LN dissection (PLND).

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Objectives: To determine how many men with high-risk prostate cancer (prostate-specific antigen [PSA]>20 ng/ml or biopsy Gleason score 8-10) have positive lymph nodes (sentinel lymph nodes [SLNs] and nonsentinel lymph nodes [NSLNs]) and whether these positive nodes are localised in the region of SLN dissection or in other regions, too.

Methods: In 228 men with high-risk prostate cancer radical retropubic prostatectomy combined with radioguided pelvic lymph node dissection and extended lymphadenectomy were performed. Serial sections of the SLNs were analysed immunohistochemically.

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