Publications by authors named "P Meijnders"

Purpose: Studies looking into the concordance between late effects reported by physicians vs. those reported by Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) survivors are missing.

Methods: A Life Situation Questionnaire focusing on late effects collected data from 1230 HL survivors (median follow-up 14.

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  • * Radiation oncologists must make tailored decisions for patient treatment, but these choices would benefit from more clinical evidence and research.
  • * The article calls for a prospective trial to better understand how different radiation doses affect patient outcomes in primary cutaneous lymphoma treatment.
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Background: Standard treatment for patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma includes surgery, radiotherapy (RT), and temozolomide (TMZ) chemotherapy (TMZ/RT→TMZ). The proteasome has long been considered a promising therapeutic target because of its role as a central biological hub in tumor cells. Marizomib is a novel pan-proteasome inhibitor that crosses the blood-brain barrier.

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Purpose: Stereotactic body radiation therapy is increasingly used for oligometastatic disease as well as palliation, but treatment protocols for nonspine bone and nodal metastases are lacking, with a wide variety of schedules applied.

Methods And Materials: A prospective dose-escalation trial was initiated, involving 90 patients, among whom 52 (58%) had primary prostate tumors, 13 had breast tumors (14%), and 25 (28%) had other primary tumor types. All visible lymph node or nonspine bone oligometastases were treated in 3 consecutive cohorts: 5 × 7.

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