Sentences with phrase «beam radiotherapy»

Conventional medicine's main types of treatment for breast cancer include surgery, radiation therapy, external beam radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and hormone therapy.

Results from a randomised controlled trial to compare the use of permanent radioactive implants (brachytherapy) with dose - escalated external beam radiotherapy in patients with prostate cancer show that the men who received brachytherapy were twice as likely to be cancer - free five years later.

External beam radiotherapy and brachytherapy caused more short - term urinary tract obstruction and irritation, while external beam radiotherapy was linked to more short - term bowel symptoms.

Almost all prostatectomy patients received robotic surgery, and almost all external beam radiotherapy patients received intensity - modulated radiation, reflecting modern treatment technologies.

They compared patients» self - reported quality of life related to bowel, urination, and sexual function across four strategies: active surveillance; prostatectomy; external beam radiotherapy; and brachytherapy.

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Health Secretary, Andrew Lansley, unveiling plans to invest up to # 150 million in procuring a new cutting - edge «proton beam therapy» radiotherapy cancer service — December 2011

Evidence that proton beam therapy is better than conventional radiotherapy is contentious but that hasn't stopped a push for protons.

In nuclear medicine, ion beams — using protons and carbon ions — have been used clinically in the radiotherapy treatment of cancer tumours since the 1990s.

The collaborative project between engineers at Lancaster University and scientists and clinicians at The University of Manchester, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and CERN, will develop a prototype «X-band linac structure» that can be retro - fitted on proton beam therapy equipment, which is used in complex radiotherapy treatments at over 50 hospitals around the world.

Proton beam therapy — a more precise form of radiotherapy — to treat the childhood brain cancer medulloblastoma appears to be as safe as conventional radiotherapy with similar survival rates, according to new research published in The Lancet Oncology journal.

«Proton beam therapy offers potential to treat childhood brain cancer with fewer severe side effects than conventional radiotherapy.»

In stereotactic radiotherapy, stereotactic radiation devices deliver radiation with beams of fast - moving subatomic particles.

Radiation therapy (sometimes called radiotherapy, x-ray therapy, or irradiation) is the treatment of disease using penetrating beams of high energy waves or streams of particles called radiation.