Sentences with phrase «body radiation therapy»

Dr. Raquibul Hannan, left, and Dr. Robert Timmerman led a team that successfully used stereotactic body radiation therapy for the first time to treat an often deadly complication of kidney cancer.

UT Southwestern Medical Center Kidney Cancer Program investigators have published what is believed to be the first reported successful use of stereotactic body radiation therapy for an often deadly complication of kidney cancer.

No one wants to hear they have cancer,» said Lewis, who recently finished stereotactic body radiation therapy at UCLA.

2007: The stereotactic body radiation therapy program began.

«The ideal next step,» Prof Morris will say, «would be to undertake randomised comparisons of LDR - PB boost against its principal alternatives — temporary high - dose - rate brachytherapy implants (HDR - PB) 3, stereotactic body radiation therapy using extreme hypofractionation4, and combined surgery and post-operative radiation therapy.

Of that number, 33 were treated with repeat thoracic radiotherapy using stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) or accelerated hypofractionated radiotherapy (AHRT), as a component of their treatment.

Patients were randomly assigned to receive either maintenance chemotherapy alone (15 patients) or a combination of stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SAbR)-- also known as stereotactic body radiation therapy or SBRT — to all sites of disease followed by maintenance chemotherapy (14 patients).

Dr. Robert Timmerman, senior author of the study, Vice Chairman of Radiation Oncology, Director of the Annette Simmons Stereotactic Treatment Center, Professor of Radiation Oncology and Neurological Surgery, and Director of Clinical Research in Radiation Oncology, was one of the first researchers in the world to use stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR), also known as stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), for cancers in the body.

The researchers noted that the decline may be related to the decreasing incidence of cervical cancer and increased adoption of alternative treatment techniques, such as intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).

Survival rates for elderly patients who received stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for early stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) rose from roughly 40 to 60 percent over the past decade, concurrent with the increasing adoption of SBRT, according to research presented today at the 58th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

«Patients with inoperable, early - stage lung cancer who receive stereotactic body radiation therapy have 40 % five - year survival rate.»

Patients with inoperable, early - stage lung cancer who receive stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) have a five - year survival rate of 40 percent, according to research presented today at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO's) 56th Annual Meeting.

DENVER — Early - stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patients with squamous cell carcinoma (SqCC) have a significantly higher rate of local failure after stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) than other NSCLC histological subtypes.

Researchers have found that treating patients who have early stage non-small cell lung cancer with a type of radiotherapy called stereotactic body radiation therapy is associated with a small but increased risk of death from causes other than cancer.

One treatment for patients with early stage non-small cell lung cancer is a form of radiation called stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT).

Gynecologic cancer, genitourinary cancer, gastrointestinal cancer, soft tissue tumors, brachytherapy, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT), image guided and adaptive radiotherapy.

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Research interests include stereotactic radiosurgery and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SRS / SBRT), 4D treatment planning and radiotherapy, radiobiological modeling and treatment plan assessment, real - time tumor tracking radiotherapy, multi-modality image application for image guided radiotherapy including ultrasound, x-ray imaging, and MRI