How Stereotactic Radiotherapy Changed the Landscape in Cancer Care

Rémy Kinj; Jean Bourhis

doi:10.3390/cancers15061734

Cancers (Mar 2023)

How Stereotactic Radiotherapy Changed the Landscape in Cancer Care

Rémy Kinj,
Jean Bourhis

Affiliations

Rémy Kinj: Service of Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland
Jean Bourhis: Service of Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/cancers15061734
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 15, no. 6
p. 1734

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The term “stereotactic body radiotherapy” (SBRT) refers to high-precision radiotherapy techniques using numerous beams converging in a small target volume, allowing the delivery of high doses per fraction (>6–7 Gy) in a very few number of fractions [...]

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Published in Cancers

ISSN: 2072-6694 (Online)
Publisher: MDPI AG
Country of publisher: Switzerland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology. Including cancer and carcinogens
Website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cancers/

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