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"What if…": decisional regret in patients who discontinued active surveillance

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'Act on oncology' as a new comprehensive approach to assess prostate cancer centres--method description and results of a pilot study

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A Decade of Active Surveillance in the PRIAS Study: An Update and Evaluation of the Criteria Used to Recommend a Switch to Active Treatment

scientific article published on 18 June 2016

Absorption rate density (ARD) computation in microwave hyperthermia by the finite-difference time-domain method

scientific article published in July 1990

Active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer

scientific article published in March 2013

Active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer worldwide: the PRIAS study.

scientific article published on 12 November 2012

Active surveillance for low-risk prostate cancer: developments to date

scientific article published on 27 November 2014

An accurate method to quantify breathing-induced prostate motion for patients implanted with electromagnetic transponders.

scientific article published on 11 February 2017

Baseline status and dose to the penile bulb predict impotence 1 year after radiotherapy for prostate cancer

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Beam modifying devices in the treatment of early breast cancer: 3-D stepped compensating technique

scientific article published on 01 March 1992

Bladder spatial-dose descriptors correlate with acute urinary toxicity after radiation therapy for prostate cancer.

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Can we improve the definition of high-risk, hormone naïve, non-metastatic prostate cancer?

scientific article published on February 2014

Cancer of the prostate.

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Changes in mortality and incidence of prostate cancer by risk class in different periods in Italy: the possible effects of PSA spread.

scientific article published on 28 February 2017

Cisplatin, hyperthermia, and radiation (trimodal therapy) in patients with locally advanced head and neck tumors: a phase I-II study

scientific article published on 01 August 1993

Clinical and dosimetric predictors of late rectal syndrome after 3D-CRT for localized prostate cancer: preliminary results of a multicenter prospective study.

scientific article published on 19 September 2007

Clinical and dosimetric predictors of late rectal toxicity after conformal radiation for localized prostate cancer: Results of a large multicenter observational study

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Clinical target volume localization using conventional methods (anatomy and palpation) and ultrasonography in early breast cancer post-operative external irradiation

scientific article published on 01 March 1997

Comment on "Objective assessment in digital images of skin erythema caused by radiotherapy" [Med. Phys. 42, 5568-5577 (2015)].

scientific article published on May 2016

Compliance Rates with the Prostate Cancer Research International Active Surveillance (PRIAS) Protocol and Disease Reclassification in Noncompliers.

scientific article published on 29 June 2015

Complications after prostate biopsies in men on active surveillance and its effects on receiving further biopsies in the Prostate cancer Research International: Active Surveillance (PRIAS) study.

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Contouring variability of the penile bulb on CT images: quantitative assessment using a generalized concordance index.

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Correlation between surrogates of bladder dosimetry and dose-volume histograms of the bladder wall defined on MRI in prostate cancer radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 22 November 2012

Correlations of thermal washout rate, steady state temperatures, and tissue type in deep seated recurrent or metastatic tumors

scientific article published on 01 June 1987

Corrigendum to 'EAU-ESMO Consensus Statements on the Management of Advanced and Variant Bladder Cancer-An International Collaborative Multistakeholder Effort Under the Auspices of the EAU-ESMO Guidelines Committees' [European Urology 77 (2020) 223-2

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Daily sodium butyrate enema for the prevention of radiation proctitis in prostate cancer patients undergoing radical radiation therapy: results of a multicenter randomized placebo-controlled dose-finding phase 2 study.

scientific article published on 3 May 2014

Development of a "ready to use" graphical tool based on artificial neural network classification: application for the prediction of late fecal incontinence after prostate cancer radiotherapy

scientific article published on 06 August 2018

Development of a set of nomograms to predict acute lower gastrointestinal toxicity for prostate cancer 3D-CRT.

scientific article published on 30 January 2008

Don't run before you can walk

scientific article published on 25 September 2012

Dose-volume effects for normal tissues in external radiotherapy: pelvis

scientific article published on 16 September 2009

EAU-ESMO Consensus Statements on the Management of Advanced and Variant Bladder Cancer-An International Collaborative Multistakeholder Effort†: Under the Auspices of the EAU-ESMO Guidelines Committees

scientific article published on 19 November 2019

Early breast cancer irradiation after conservative surgery: quality control by portal localization films.

scientific article published on December 1991

Editorial Comment to Health-related quality of life after carbon-ion radiotherapy for prostate cancer: a 3-year prospective study

scientific article published on 13 November 2013

Effect of radiochemical modification on biodistribution of scFvD2B antibody fragment recognising prostate specific membrane antigen

scientific article published on 21 September 2015

Eleven-year management of prostate cancer patients on active surveillance: what have we learned?

scientific article published on 14 June 2017

Emptying the rectum before treatment delivery limits the variations of rectal dose - volume parameters during 3DCRT of prostate cancer

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Equipment, staffing, and provision of radiotherapy in Lombardy, Italy: Results of three surveys performed between 2012 and 2016

scientific article published on 09 July 2018

Estimates of prostate cancer burden in Italy

scientific article published on 29 December 2015

Evaluation of Mediators Associated with the Inflammatory Response in Prostate Cancer Patients Undergoing Radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 25 February 2018

Evidence of limited motion of the prostate by carefully emptying the rectum as assessed by daily MVCT image guidance with helical tomotherapy.

scientific article published on 18 April 2008

Expert consensus document: Semantics in active surveillance for men with localized prostate cancer - results of a modified Delphi consensus procedure

scientific article published on 14 March 2017

Factors influencing acute and late toxicity in the era of adjuvant hypofractionated breast radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 28 July 2016

First application of a pixel-wise analysis on bladder dose-surface maps in prostate cancer radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 15 March 2016

Fitting late rectal bleeding data using different NTCP models: results from an Italian multi-centric study (AIROPROS0101).

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Follow-up of elderly patients with urogenital cancers: Evaluation of geriatric care needs and related actions

scientific article published on 11 March 2017

Fractionation and late rectal toxicity: no reliable estimates of alpha/beta value for rectum can be derived from studies where different volumes of rectum are irradiated at different dose levels: in regard to Brenner (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 20

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Full preclinical validation of the 123I-labeled anti-PSMA antibody fragment ScFvD2B for prostate cancer imaging

scientific article published on 30 December 2016

Hadrontherapy from the Italian Radiation Oncologist point of view: face the reality. The Italian Society of Oncological Radiotherapy (AIRO) survey

scientific article published on 21 October 2016

High quality surface reconstruction in radiotherapy: Cross-sectional contours to 3D mesh using wavelets.

scientific article published on August 2015

How does active surveillance for prostate cancer affect quality of life? A systematic review

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Hyperfractionated radiation in combination with local hyperthermia in the treatment of advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: a phase I-II study

scientific article published on 01 November 1997

Impact of the radiotherapy technique on the correlation between dose-volume histograms of the bladder wall defined on MRI imaging and dose-volume/surface histograms in prostate cancer patients

scientific article published on 11 March 2013

In Reply to Loganadane et al

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

In regard to Kagan: “The multidisciplinary clinic” (Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2005;61:967–968)

scientific article published on 01 September 2005

Inclusion of clinical risk factors into NTCP modelling of late rectal toxicity after high dose radiotherapy for prostate cancer.

scientific article published on 7 July 2011

Increasing the risk of late rectal bleeding after high-dose radiotherapy for prostate cancer: the case of previous abdominal surgery. Results from a prospective trial.

scientific article published on 20 April 2012

Integrated gene and miRNA expression analysis of prostate cancer associated fibroblasts supports a prominent role for interleukin-6 in fibroblast activation

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Inter-observer variability in contouring the penile bulb on CT images for prostate cancer treatment planning.

scientific article published on 24 September 2011

Is It Time to Tailor the Prediction of Radio-Induced Toxicity in Prostate Cancer Patients? Building the First Set of Nomograms for Late Rectal Syndrome

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Is the alpha-beta ratio of prostate cancer really low? A prospective, non-randomized trial comparing standard and hyperfractionated conformal radiation therapy

scientific article published on 18 April 2005

Late Fecal Incontinence After High-Dose Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer: Better Prediction Using Longitudinal Definitions

scientific article published on 08 October 2011

Late rectal bleeding after 3D-CRT for prostate cancer: development of a neural-network-based predictive model.

scientific article published on 21 February 2012

Lifestyle interventions to improve the quality of life of men with prostate cancer: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials

scientific article published on 20 October 2016

Living with untreated prostate cancer: predictors of quality of life.

scientific article published on May 2014

Long term rectal function after high-dose prostatecancer radiotherapy: results from a prospective cohort study.

scientific article published on 11 December 2013

Long-term biochemical control of prostate cancer after standard or hyper-fractionation: evidence for different outcomes between low-intermediate and high risk patients.

scientific article published on 26 August 2011

Low dose of ketoconazole in patients with prostate adenocarcinoma resistant to pharmacological castration

scientific article published on 15 November 2010

Malignant melanoma

scientific article published on 01 July 2003

Management of Patients with Advanced Prostate Cancer: The Report of the Advanced Prostate Cancer Consensus Conference APCCC 2017.

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Management of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer: A focus on radium-223: Opinions and suggestions from an expert multidisciplinary panel

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Mixed-beam approach for high-risk prostate cancer: Carbon-ion boost followed by photon intensity-modulated radiotherapy. Dosimetric and geometric evaluations (AIRC IG-14300)

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Modelling late stool frequency and rectal pain after radical radiotherapy in prostate cancer patients: Results from a large pooled population

scientific article published on 06 October 2016

Moderate Hypofractionation with Simultaneous Integrated Boost in Prostate Cancer: Long-term Results of a Phase I-II Study.

scientific article published on 5 March 2016

Modified peptides in anti-cancer vaccines: are we eventually improving anti-tumour immunity?

scientific article published on 08 November 2008

Multi-variable models of large International Prostate Symptom Score worsening at the end of therapy in prostate cancer radiotherapy.

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Multi-variable models predicting specific patient-reported acute urinary symptoms after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: Results of a cohort study.

scientific article published on 11 August 2015

Multidisciplinary Team Meetings in Cancer Care: We Could and Should do Better Than This

scientific article published on 09 September 2016

Multidisciplinary Versus One-on-One Setting: A Qualitative Study of Clinicians' Perceptions of Their Relationship With Patients With Prostate Cancer

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Multipeptide vaccination in cancer patients.

scientific article published on August 2009

Past and present of radiation oncology in Italy

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Patient-reported intestinal toxicity from whole pelvis intensity-modulated radiotherapy: First quantification of bowel dose-volume effects.

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Patient-reported urinary incontinence after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: Quantifying the dose-effect.

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Patterns in ano-rectal dose maps and the risk of late toxicity after prostate IMRT

scientific article published on 12 July 2019

Patterns of radiotherapy for early breast cancer in Northern Italy compared with European and national standards

scientific article published on 01 April 1999

Peripheral DTIC neurotoxicity: a case report

scientific article published on January 1987

Phase I-II study of hypofractionated simultaneous integrated boost with tomotherapy for prostate cancer

scientific article published on 04 December 2008

Phase II multi-institutional clinical trial on a new mixed beam RT scheme of IMRT on pelvis combined with a carbon ion boost for high-risk prostate cancer patients

scientific article published on 2 December 2016

Physicists' views on hadrontherapy: a survey of members of the Italian Association of Medical Physics (AIFM).

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Predicting Late Fecal Incontinence Risk After Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer: New Insights From External Independent Validation

scientific article published on 30 June 2018

Predicting toxicity in radiotherapy for prostate cancer

scientific article published on 8 April 2016

Predictive modeling in prostate cancer: a conference summary

scientific article published on 17 September 2008

Predictive models of toxicity in external radiotherapy: dosimetric issues.

scientific article published on July 2009

Predictive models of toxicity with external radiotherapy for prostate cancer: clinical issues

scientific article published on July 2009

Predictive role of free prostate-specific antigen in a prospective active surveillance program (PRIAS).

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

Predictors for Rectal and Intestinal Acute Toxicities During Prostate Cancer High-Dose 3D-CRT: Results of a Prospective Multicenter Study

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Predictors of health-related quality of life and adjustment to prostate cancer during active surveillance.

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Predictors of unfavourable repeat biopsy results in men participating in a prospective active surveillance program

scientific article published on 24 June 2011

Prostate Cancer Unit Initiative in Europe: A position paper by the European School of Oncology.

scientific article published on 05 June 2015

Prostate Cancer Units: Has the Time Come to Discuss This Thorny Issue and Promote their Establishment in Europe?

scientific article published on August 19, 2011

Prostate cancer changes in clinical presentation and treatments in two decades: an Italian population-based study.

scientific article published on 9 September 2016

Prostate cancer treatment in Europe at the end of 1990s

scientific article published in January 2009

Prostate cancer: ESMO Consensus Conference Guidelines 2012

scientific article published on January 9, 2013

Quality assurance of 3D-CRT: indications and difficulties in their applications.

scientific article published on 02 September 2008

Radical Prostatectomy for Low-Risk Prostate Cancer Following Initial Active Surveillance: Results From a Prospective Observational Study

scientific article published on 14 February 2012

Radical radiation alone versus radical radiation plus microwave hyperthermia for N3 (TNM-UICC) neck nodes: a prospective randomized clinical trial

scientific article published on 01 July 1988

Radiotherapy for oligometastatic cancer: a survey among radiation oncologists of Lombardy (AIRO-Lombardy), Italy

scientific article published on 15 December 2018

Rectal dose-volume constraints in high-dose radiotherapy of localized prostate cancer

scientific article published in November 2003

Reducing rectal injury during external beam radiotherapy for prostate cancer

scientific article published on 14 May 2013

Relationships between bladder dose-volume/surface histograms and acute urinary toxicity after radiotherapy for prostate cancer.

scientific article published on 13 March 2014

Reply from authors re: Laurence Klotz. Active surveillance, quality of life, and cancer-related anxiety. Eur Urol 2013;64:37-9: active surveillance: risk and protective factors for quality of life

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Report of long-term follow-up in a randomized trial comparing radiation therapy and radiation therapy plus hyperthermia to metastatic lymph nodes in stage IV head and neck patients

scientific article published on 01 January 1994

Reporting Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Men on Active Surveillance for Prostate Cancer: The PRECISE Recommendations-A Report of a European School of Oncology Task Force

scientific article published on 24 June 2016

Safety of Abiraterone Acetate in Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer Patients With Concomitant Cardiovascular Risk Factors

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Safety of long-term exposure to abiraterone acetate in patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer and concomitant cardiovascular risk factors

scientific article published on 5 July 2016

Setting an Agenda for Assessment of Health-related Quality of Life Among Men with Prostate Cancer on Active Surveillance: A Consensus Paper from a European School of Oncology Task Force

scientific article published on 6 October 2016

Short-term outcomes of the prospective multicentre 'Prostate Cancer Research International: Active Surveillance' study.

scientific article published on 8 October 2009

Ten-year results of treatment of ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) of the breast with conservative surgery and radiotherapy

scientific article published on 01 September 1997

The 2008 European School of Oncology inside track conference, "predictive modeling in prostate cancer".

scientific article published in July 2009

The 6-year attendance of a multidisciplinary prostate cancer clinic in Italy: incidence of management changes

scientific article published on 8 March 2012

The REQUITE project: validating predictive models and biomarkers of radiotherapy toxicity to reduce side-effects and improve quality of life in cancer survivors

scientific article published on 27 September 2014

The definition of local control. Response to Parsons

scientific article published on 01 June 1991

The impact of contouring uncertainty on rectal 3D dose-volume data: results of a dummy run in a multicenter trial (AIROPROS01-02).

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The requirements of a specialist Prostate Cancer Unit: a discussion paper from the European School of Oncology

scientific article published in December 2010

To bleed or not to bleed. A prediction based on individual gene profiling combined with dose-volume histogram shapes in prostate cancer patients undergoing three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy.

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Trastuzumab and Hypofractionated Whole Breast Radiotherapy: A Victorious Combination?

scientific article published on 24 August 2017

Understanding urinary toxicity after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: first steps forward.

scientific article published on 7 September 2017

Urinary bladder preservation for muscle-invasive bladder cancer: a survey among radiation oncologists of Lombardy, Italy

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Vaccination therapy in prostate cancer.

scientific article published on 10 October 2006

miR-205 Exerts tumor-suppressive functions in human prostate through down-regulation of protein kinase Cepsilon.

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miR-205 hinders the malignant interplay between prostate cancer cells and associated fibroblasts

scientific article published on 17 September 2013

miR-205 impairs the autophagic flux and enhances cisplatin cytotoxicity in castration-resistant prostate cancer cells

scientific article published on 24 December 2013

miR-205 regulates basement membrane deposition in human prostate: implications for cancer development

scientific article published on 4 May 2012

miR-21: an oncomir on strike in prostate cancer.

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miR-875-5p counteracts epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition and enhances radiation response in prostate cancer through repression of the EGFR-ZEB1 axis

scientific article published on 5 March 2017

miRNAs in tumor radiation response: bystanders or participants?

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