The results of nasopharyngeal cancer patients treated by simultaneous integrated boost technique and concomitant chemotherapy.

Background/aim: To assess the efficacy and side effects of concurrent weekly chemotherapy and radiotherapy with simultaneous integrated boost (SIB) technique for nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC).

Materials And Methods: total of 51 consecutive patients with diagnosis of NPC were treated between February 2010 and December 2015. The median dose for PTV70 (range: 60–82) was given in 33 fractions (range: 31–35).

Prognostic Significance of Standardized Uptake Value on Fluorine-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in Patients with Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma.

The aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic significance of standardized uptake value (SUV) on 18 fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Thirty-four patients who have histologically proven NPC and underwent F-FDG PET/CT were included in this study. After F-FDG PET/CT, all the patients received radiation therapy and 32 of them received concomitant weekly chemotherapy.

Characteristics of childhood glial tumors, management approaches and life expectancy of the patients.

Purpose: To evaluate the clinical characteristics, management approaches and life expectancy in pediatric patients with neuroepithelial glial tumors except ependymal tumors.

Methods: Between January 2003 and August 2008, 48 patients (30 boys, 18 girls; mean age: 10.9 ± 4.

Lack of prognostic value of blood parameters in patients receiving adjuvant radiotherapy for breast cancer.

Aim: To determine prognostic value of blood parameters on overall and progression-free survival in cases received adjuvant radiotherapy and chemotherapy with diagnosis of stage I-III breast cancer.

Materials And Methods: We retrospectively reviewed files of 350 patients with non-metastatic breast cancer who were treated in the Radiation Oncology Department of Kayseri Teaching Hospital between 2005 and 2010. Pretreatment white blood cell (WBC), neutrophil, monocyte, basophil and eosinophil counts, and the neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet lymphocyte ratio (PLR) were recorded.

Reirradiation with robotic stereotactic body radiotherapy for recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Background: Recurrent nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) after previous radiotherapy is challenging. There is no standard approach for salvage treatment. Here we present toxicity and treatment results for recurrent NFC patients who underwent fractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (FSRT) as second line radiotherapy (RT).

Predictive factors for detecting malignancy in central and lateral cervical lymph nodes in papillary carcinoma of the thyroid.

Aim: To determine the factors for predicting malignant diagnosis and limitations in ultrasonography guided fine-needle aspiration cytology of central and lateral cervical lymph nodes in patients with primary differentiated thyroid papillary carcinoma.

Methods: Biopsies of cervical lymph nodes were performed in 120 patients, 31 of whom had subsequent surgical diagnoses. Factors examined were patient's age and gender of the patients, location (central and lateral compartments), hypoechogenicity with loss of hilum, microcalcification, cystic feature, minimum and maximum diameters and index value (minimum/maximum diameter).