Sentences with phrase «body radiotherapy»
Body radiotherapy refers to a medical treatment that uses radiation to treat diseases in different parts of the body. It involves targeting the affected areas with high-energy rays to kill or shrink cancer cells and other abnormal tissues. Full definition
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A Comparison between Three - Dimensional Conformal Radiotherapy, Intensity - Modulated Radiotherapy, and Volumetric - Modulated Arc Therapy Techniques for Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy of Lung Tumors
«These patients are too ill to receive any other treatment, but with stereotactic body radiotherapy we're able to deliver a safe and effective treatment in two weeks that can provide them with a substantial quality of life with minimal side effects.»
Called stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), the study finds patients lived, on average, six to seven months longer following treatment with minimal side - effects even when they had other severe comorbidities such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart disease and diabetes.
CyberKnife, as well as other types of advanced radiation treatment devices (such as image guided Linac [Linear Accelerators] and Tomotherapy), are used in a type of radiation therapy called stereotactic radiotherapy, also known as stereotactic body radiotherapy or SBRT.
With a focus on high - tech radiotherapy such as image guided radiotherapy (IGRT), stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), brachytherapy and radiobiologic modulation of tumor response, I have had the chance to use precise radiotherapy to treat variety of tumor sites such as genitourinary, gynecologic, soft tissue sarcoma, gastrointestinal, head and neck cancer and metastatic disease.