Sentences with phrase «brain radiation therapy»

A phase 3 trial of whole brain radiation therapy and stereotactic radiosurgery alone versus WBRT and SRS with temozolomide or erlotinib for non-small cell lung cancer and 1 to 3 brain metastases: Radiation Therapy Oncology Group 0320.

This research could have important implications for cancer survivors, given that hypopituitarism is one of the main causes of poor quality of life after brain radiation therapy.

Treatment approaches include whole - brain radiation therapy, radiation for individual lesions, and surgery, typically for a single metastasis.

During whole - brain radiation therapy, beams of radiation cover the entire brain.

Not exact matches

Traditional therapies for brain cancer — surgery, chemotherapy and radiation — haven't been very successful, says Memorial Sloan Kettering's Dr. Baselga, adding, «We have a tremendous need to develop new therapies, especially with children.»

In December 2017, writing in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Yankeelov and collaborators at UT Austin and Technical University of Munich, showed that they can predict how brain tumors (gliomas) will grow and respond to X-ray radiation therapy with much greater accuracy than previous models.

Proton therapy has been shown to be beneficial for certain uncommon ocular and brain cancers, and especially for treating children like Jonathan, whose developing tissues can be highly sensitive to stray radiation.

Researchers compared two common postsurgical therapies for metastatic brain tumors and found that stereotactic radiosurgery can provide better outcomes for patients compared to whole - brain radiation.

Although this therapy does cost more, results often can be achieved in one to three visits compared to 10 to 12 visits for whole - brain radiation.

Since whole - brain radiation is associated with significant cognitive effects and the use of additional radiation therapy for progression is common in this population, the Yale researchers suspect that patients with the ALK mutation would benefit from radiation focused on individual metastases.

Hypopituitarism can be caused by tumors, genetic defects, brain trauma, immune and infectious diseases, or radiation therapy.

In early clinical trials, Sessler and his colleagues treated 39 metastatic brain tumor patients with texaphyrins 2 hours before radiation therapy for 10 days.

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center prospectively evaluated the cardiac function biomarkers brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), troponin - I (TNI), and electrocardiogram (ECG) in 25 patients receiving high - dose conformal radiation therapy for thoracic malignancies.

He is working closely with a team of physicians at the UNM Cancer Center to conduct these trials: M. Omar Chohan, MD, a neurosurgeon who specializes in surgery for tumors of the brain and spinal cord; Gregory Gan, MD, PhD, a radiation oncologist who is an expert in the radiation therapy of brain tumors; and Yanis Boumber, MD, PhD, a newly recruited medical oncologist to the UNM Cancer Center who is an expert in cancers of the lung, brain and spinal cord, and early phase clinical trials.

Unlike adults with brain cancer, children can not receive radiation therapy, so doctors must rely on medications and other strategies.

Proton therapy delivers high radiation doses directly to the brain tumor site, with no damage to nearby healthy tissue.

Sophisticated radiation therapy technologies for treating brain and spinal tumors, aneurysms, and blood vessel abnormalities while causing minimal damage to healthy tissues.

Proton therapy is an advanced form of radiation treatment that is especially effective for reaching tumors or remaining cancer cells close to key organs such as the brain stem or spinal cord.

Former president Jimmy Carter, who was diagnosed last year with melanoma that had spread to his brain, announced this month that the double whammy of an immune therapy drug plus radiation had been so successful that he was stopping treatment.

For patients with metastatic breast cancer, radiation therapy can be used to treat areas of distant spread (e.g. bone or brain).

Dr. Gaspar has 25 years of experience treating thoracic and brain tumors, utilizing stereotactic techniques, intensity modulated radiation therapy and image guidance.

Our expert neurologists and neurosurgeons are at the forefront of imaging for brain surgery, as well as radiation therapy for brain, skull and spinal cord tumors and treatments for a wide range of neurologic conditions.

She has worked extensively with concurrent chemotherapy and radiation therapy for both thoracic and brain tumors.

Thanks to refined surgical techniques and improved chemotherapy and radiation therapy, the majority of children with brain and spinal cord tumors — collectively known as central nervous system tumors — are now long - term survivors.

Newly diagnosed supratentorial brain lesion compatible with a high grade glioma by MR (magnetic resonance) with no prior treatment with either gene therapy, chemotherapy or radiation treatments that is amenable to attempted gross total resection (GTR).

Generally, treatment of metastatic brain tumors will include surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, conventional radiation therapy and chemotherapy, each used independently or in combination.

For example, certain medical therapies, like radiation, can damage the brain and negatively impact memory.

Patients receive a personalized, comprehensive approach to care for their benign and malignant brain tumors and are evaluated for multimodality treatments such as chemotherapy, minimally invasive surgical options, and radiation therapy including proton therapy and gamma knife.

But other studies in mice have shown that a ketogenic diet, when implemented in conjunction with radiation therapy for the treatment of brain tumors in mice, resulted in the eradication of these tumors in the majority of the mice.12

Adrienne Scheck has shown that when applied with curative doses of radiation therapy, the ketogenic diet can make brain tumors vanish in mice.2 However, many dietary changes appear to blunt cancer growth in mice, 3 and the effects in humans are less clear.

Indications for radiation therapy (RT) include the primary treatment of specific tumor types, such as nasal tumors and brain tumors, adjuvant treatment of incompletely excised tumors, and palliation to improve quality of life for patients with non-resectable or advanced cancers.

At the Animal Cancer and Imaging Center, we have treated a large number of patients with brain tumors with radiation therapy.

In general, brain tumor patients treated with radiation therapy tolerate treatment extremely well.

Three - dimensional CT based radiation therapy is performed on all brain tumor patients at ACIC.

Because of this, we usually recommend doing bloodwork, chest X-rays and an abdominal ultrasound to examine your pet for other types of cancer before pursuing any type of radiation therapy for brain tumors.

In some tumor locations, especially for suspected brain tumors, a biopsy diagnosis is not required for consideration of radiation therapy.

Treatments can range from oral medications given at home to injectable medications given while hospitalized, brain or spinal cord surgery, radiation therapy or chemotherapy.

In general, animals tolerate brain surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy MUCH better than people, with fewer side effects.