Evaluation of radiation treatment volumes for unknown primaries of the head and neck in the era of FDG PET

Alexis Platek; Michael Mix; Varun Chowdhry; Mark Farrugia; Michael A. Lacombe; Jeffrey A. Bogart; Luke Degraaf; Austin Iovoli; Hassan Arshad; Kimberly Wooten; Vishal Gupta; Wesley L. Hicks Jr; Mary E. Platek; Seung S. Hahn; Anurag K. Singh

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231042

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Evaluation of radiation treatment volumes for unknown primaries of the head and neck in the era of FDG PET

Alexis Platek,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, United States of America
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Michael Mix,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, United States of America
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Varun Chowdhry,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Medicine, Buffalo, NY, United States of America
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Mark Farrugia,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Medicine, Buffalo, NY, United States of America
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Michael A. Lacombe,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, United States of America
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Jeffrey A. Bogart,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, United States of America
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Luke Degraaf,

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, United States of America
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Austin Iovoli,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, United States of America
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Hassan Arshad,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Head and Neck/Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Buffalo, NY, United States of America
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Kimberly Wooten,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Head and Neck/Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Buffalo, NY, United States of America
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Vishal Gupta,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Head and Neck/Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Buffalo, NY, United States of America
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Wesley L. Hicks Jr,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Head and Neck/Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Buffalo, NY, United States of America
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Mary E. Platek,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Biostatistics, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Department of Dietetics, D’Youville College, Buffalo, New York, United States of America
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Seung S. Hahn,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY, United States of America
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Anurag K. Singh

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Anurag.Singh@RoswellPark.org

Affiliation Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Medicine, Buffalo, NY, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6703-5115

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Evaluation of radiation treatment volumes for unknown primaries of the head and neck in the era of FDG PET

Alexis Platek,
Michael Mix,
Varun Chowdhry,
Mark Farrugia,
Michael A. Lacombe,
Jeffrey A. Bogart,
Luke Degraaf,
Austin Iovoli,
Hassan Arshad,
Kimberly Wooten

Published: April 10, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231042

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