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SUBMITTER: Dean JA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6175048 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dean J A JA Welsh L C LC Wong K H KH Aleksic A A Dunne E E Islam M R MR Patel A A Patel P P Petkar I I Phillips I I Sham J J Schick U U Newbold K L KL Bhide S A SA Harrington K J KJ Nutting C M CM Gulliford S L SL
Clinical oncology (Royal College of Radiologists (Great Britain)) 20170103 4
<h4>Aims</h4>A normal tissue complication probability (NTCP) model of severe acute mucositis would be highly useful to guide clinical decision making and inform radiotherapy planning. We aimed to improve upon our previous model by using a novel oral mucosal surface organ at risk (OAR) in place of an oral cavity OAR.<h4>Materials and methods</h4>Predictive models of severe acute mucositis were generated using radiotherapy dose to the oral cavity OAR or mucosal surface OAR and clinical data. Penal ...[more]