Sentences with phrase «brain radiotherapy»

For patients with non-small cell lung cancer with brain metastases, treatment with whole brain radiotherapy may not offer much benefit.

Long - term survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and synchronous brain metastasis treated with whole - brain radiotherapy and thoracic chemoradiation.

Whole brain radiotherapy (WBRT) significantly improves tumor control in the brain after SRS, yet because of its association with cognitive decline, its role in the treatment of patients with brain metastases remains controversial.

Not exact matches

In particular, our pediatric radiation oncologists at Floating Hospital for Children offer special expertise in the management of brain tumors, including medulloblastoma, with a combination of post-operative radiotherapy and multi-agent chemotherapy.

Model of tumor growth in a rat brain before radiation treatment (left) and after one session of radiotherapy (right).

The diagnosis and treatment of female cancers are known to affect fertility for several reasons: some chemotherapy regimens can cause damage to the ovary, and this can occur at any age; radiotherapy can also compromise female fertility through effects on the ovary, uterus and potentially those brain centres which control the reproductive axis.

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.»

This says the research team is particularly valuable for children, whose brains are still developing and who thus run the highest risk of injury from the radiotherapy often used against malignant brain tumours.

Exclusion criteria were: lymphoma outside the CNS, HIV positivity, inadequate bone marrow function, liver disease, creatinine clearance less than 60 mL / min, organ transplantation, prior radiotherapy to the brain, previous malignancy unless disease free for at least five years, pregnancy or lactation.

The canine brain tumor clinical, surgical and radiotherapy caseload is ample, owing to brain tumor clinical trials and related research.

Tumor types that may respond well to radiotherapy, or where radiotherapy can improve quality of remaining life by reducing pain, include mast cell tumors, sarcomas (cancer of bone, muscle or various connective tissue), lymphosarcoma, and tumors of the mouth, nose, brain and thyroid.