The efficacy of external beam radiotherapy and stereotactic body radiotherapy for painful spinal metastases from renal cell carcinoma

…, SA Koyfman, T Bledsoe, LJ Sheplan… - Practical Radiation …, 2012 - Elsevier
Purpose Palliative radiotherapy is routinely used to treat painful spinal metastases from
renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Conventionally planned external beam radiotherapy (CRT) has …

Use of radiation therapy for patients with soft-tissue and bone sarcomas.

LJ Sheplan, JJ Juliano - Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine, 2010 - europepmc.org
Radiation therapy is recommended as an adjuvant to resection for intermediate-and high-grade
soft-tissue sarcomas; its role in bone sarcomas is largely limited to select patients with …

Radiotherapy for prolactin-secreting pituitary tumors

LJ Sheplan Olsen, L Robles Irizarry, ST Chao, RJ Weil… - Pituitary, 2012 - Springer
Review the medical and surgical management of patients with prolactinomas and provide an
in-depth appraisal of the role of radiotherapy in the treatment of prolactinomas. A thorough …

Late toxicity after intensity modulated and image guided radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer and post-prostatectomy patients

…, K Brockway, CA Reddy, S Rehman, LJ Sheplan… - Practical radiation …, 2013 - Elsevier
Purpose To examine late gastrointestinal (GI) and genitourinary (GU) toxicity profiles of
patients treated for prostate cancer either definitively or post-prostatectomy with both intensity …

Combining prior day contours to improve automated prostate segmentation

A Godley, LJ Sheplan Olsen, K Stephans… - Medical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose: To improve the accuracy of automatically segmented prostate, rectum, and bladder
contours required for online adaptive therapy. The contouring accuracy on the current …

10 Lymphoma and Myeloma

LJ Sheplan, RM Macklis - Handbook of Treatment Planning in …, 2010 - books.google.com
Lymphomas represent a heterogeneous group of disease entities, which■ make the
treatment planning details largely case-specific. General principles can guide the clinician in …

Prostate rotation detected from implanted markers can affect dose coverage and cannot be simply dismissed

Q Shang, LJS Olsen, K Stephans… - Journal of Applied …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
With implanted markers, daily prostate displacements can be automatically detected with six
degrees of freedom. The reported magnitudes of the rotations, however, are often greater …

Evaluation of long-term bowel and urinary toxicity after permanent prostate brachytherapy

…, J Ulchaker, MJ Burdick, MK Khan, L Sheplan… - …, 2009 - brachyjournal.com
patients (25 received <6 months and 48 received more than 6 months) while 31 patients
were hormone naıve. The median day 0 d Page 1 patients (25 received <6 months and 48 …

Brachytherapy in pelvic malignancies: a review for radiologists

RA Vicens, J Rodriguez, L Sheplan, C Mayo, L Mayo… - Abdominal …, 2015 - Springer
Brachytherapy, also known as sealed source or internal radiation therapy, involves placement
of a radioactive source immediately adjacent to or within tumor, thus enabling delivery of a …

Defining the state from within: Boundaries, schemas, and associational policymaking

D Mayrl, S Quinn - Sociological Theory, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
A growing literature posits the importance of boundaries in structuring social systems. Yet
sociologists have not adequately theorized one of the most fraught and consequential sites of …