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A comparison of mantle versus involved-field radiotherapy for Hodgkin's lymphoma: reduction in normal tissue dose and second cancer risk

Eng-Siew Koh1 email, Tu Huan Tran1 email, Mostafa Heydarian2 email, Rainer K Sachs3 email, Richard W Tsang1 email, David J Brenner4 email, Melania Pintilie5 email, Tony Xu3 email, June Chung3 email, Narinder Paul6 email and David C Hodgson1 email

University of Toronto, Department of Radiation Oncology, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

University of Toronto, Department of Radiation Physics, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA

Department of Clinical Study Coordination and Biostatistics, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

University of Toronto, Department of Medical Imaging, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Radiation Oncology 2007, 2:13doi:10.1186/1748-717X-2-13

Published: 15 March 2007

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Calculation of Radiation-Induced Cancer Risks from Dose-Volume Histograms using Initiation/Inactivation/Proliferation Methodology. The details provided represent further explanation of the biologic risk modeling applied, including key assumptions, and mathematical estimation of Excess Relative Risk.

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