%0 Journal Article
%T Utilization of intensity modulated radiation therapy for anal cancer in the United States
%A Bin S. Teh
%A E. Brian Butler
%A Vivek Verma
%A Waqar Haque
%J SCIE-indexed Journal
%D 2018
%X Combined chemoradiotherapy (CRT) for anal cancer (AC) is an efficacious measure which provides high rates of disease control and survival; it is thus the consensus paradigm to treat most cases of AC (1). However, concurrent CRT can also incur high rates of treatment-related toxicities, including perianal symptoms, which can be severely debilitating and substantially impair tolerance of full-dose CRT as well as quality of life. To this extent, radiation therapy (RT) has markedly advanced from the historical use of two- or three-dimensional conformal RT (2D/3DCRT) to inverse-planned intensity-modulated RT (IMRT), which creates highly conformal dose distributions and minimizes toxicities to several organs-at-risk (OARs)
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