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SUBMITTER: Kobashi K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5868200 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kobashi Keiji K Prayongrat Anussara A Kimoto Takuya T Toramatsu Chie C Dekura Yasuhiro Y Katoh Norio N Shimizu Shinichi S Ito Yoichi M YM Shirato Hiroki H
Journal of radiation research 20180301 suppl_1
Modern radiotherapy technologies such as proton beam therapy (PBT) permit dose escalation to the tumour and minimize unnecessary doses to normal tissues. To achieve appropriate patient selection for PBT, a normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) model can be applied to estimate the risk of treatment-related toxicity relative to X-ray therapy (XRT). A methodology for estimating the difference in NTCP (∆NTCP), including its uncertainty as a function of dose to normal tissue, is described in ...[more]