Tumor Burden

"Tumor Burden" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The total amount (cell number, weight, size or volume) of tumor cells or tissue in the body.

Descriptor ID	D047368
MeSH Number(s)	E05.041.124.892
Concept/Terms	Tumor Burden Tumor Burden Burden, Tumor Tumor Load Load, Tumor Loads, Tumor Tumor Loads Tumor Volume Tumor Volume Volume, Tumor Tumor Weight Tumor Weight Tumor Weights Weight, Tumor Weights, Tumor

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Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment [E]
Investigative Techniques [E05]
Anthropometry [E05.041]
Body Weights and Measures [E05.041.124]
Tumor Burden [E05.041.124.892]

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2006	0	2	2
2007	0	2	2
2008	0	2	2
2009	0	3	3
2010	0	4	4
2011	1	5	6
2012	2	0	2
2013	1	2	3
2014	2	5	7
2015	0	7	7
2016	0	5	5
2017	0	4	4
2018	0	4	4
2020	0	2	2
2021	0	1	1
2022	1	1	2
2025	0	1	1

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Lin SJ, Guo QJ, Liu Q, Ng WT, Ahn YC, AlHussain H, Chan AW, Chow J, Chua MLK, Corry J, Han F, Gr?goire V, Harrington KJ, Hu CS, Jensen K, Langendijk JA, Le QT, Lee NY, Lee V, Lin JC, Ma J, Mendenhall WM, O'Sullivan B, Ozyar E, Rosenthal DI, Tao YG, Wang RS, Wee J, Xu ZY, Yi JL, Yom SS, Fan DM, Mai HQ, Pan JJ, Lee AWM. International Consensus Guideline on Delineation of the Clinical Target Volumes at Different Dose Levels for Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (2024 Version). Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2025 Oct 01; 123(2):415-431.

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Cheng Y, Bu D, Zhang Q, Sun R, Lyle S, Zhao G, Dong L, Li H, Zhao Y, Yu J, Hao X. Genomic and transcriptomic profiling indicates the prognosis significance of mutational signature for TMB-high subtype in Chinese patients with gastric cancer. J Adv Res. 2023 09; 51:121-134.

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Vachha BA, Huang RY. BOLD asynchrony: An imaging biomarker of tumor burden in IDH-mutated gliomas. Neuro Oncol. 2022 01 05; 24(1):88-89.

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Yambayev I, Sullivan TB, Suzuki K, Zhao Q, Higgins SE, Yilmaz OH, Litle VR, Moreira P, Servais EL, Stock CT, Quadri SM, Williamson C, Rieger-Christ KM, Burks EJ. Pulmonary Adenocarcinomas of Low Malignant Potential: Proposed Criteria to Expand the Spectrum Beyond Adenocarcinoma In Situ and Minimally Invasive Adenocarcinoma. Am J Surg Pathol. 2021 04 01; 45(4):567-576.

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Rosenberger LH, Thomas SM, Nimbkar SN, Hieken TJ, Ludwig KK, Jacobs LK, Miller ME, Gallagher KK, Wong J, Neuman HB, Tseng J, Hassinger TE, King TA, Jakub JW. Contemporary Multi-Institutional Cohort of 550 Cases of Phyllodes Tumors (2007-2017) Demonstrates a Need for More Individualized Margin Guidelines. J Clin Oncol. 2021 01 20; 39(3):178-189.

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de Margerie-Mellon C, Ngo LH, Gill RR, Monteiro Filho AC, Heidinger BH, Onken A, Medina MA, VanderLaan PA, Bankier AA. The Growth Rate of Subsolid Lung Adenocarcinoma Nodules at Chest CT. Radiology. 2020 10; 297(1):189-198.

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Goehler A, Harry Hsu TM, Lacson R, Gujrathi I, Hashemi R, Chlebus G, Szolovits P, Khorasani R. Three-Dimensional Neural Network to Automatically Assess Liver Tumor Burden Change on Consecutive Liver MRIs. J Am Coll Radiol. 2020 Nov; 17(11):1475-1484.

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Riina MD, Rashad R, Cohen S, Brownlee Z, Sioshansi S, Hepel J, Chatterjee A, Huber KE. The Effectiveness of Intraoperative Clip Placement in Improving Radiation Therapy Boost Targeting After Oncoplastic Surgery. Pract Radiat Oncol. 2020 Sep - Oct; 10(5):e348-e356.

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Bremer T, Whitworth PW, Patel R, Savala J, Barry T, Lyle S, Leesman G, Linke SP, Jirstr?m K, Zhou W, Amini RM, W?rnberg F. A Biological Signature for Breast Ductal Carcinoma In Situ to Predict Radiotherapy Benefit and Assess Recurrence Risk. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 12 01; 24(23):5895-5901.

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Vijayaraghavan GR, Vedantham S, Santos-Nunez G, Hultman R. Unifocal Invasive Lobular Carcinoma: Tumor Size Concordance Between Preoperative Ultrasound Imaging and Postoperative Pathology. Clin Breast Cancer. 2018 12; 18(6):e1367-e1372.

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