Sentences with phrase «cancers after radiation therapy»

Clinicians should be aware of a small increased risk of second primary cancers after radiation therapy compared with men receiving surgery.

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Women who have had breast cancer may not be able to breastfeed after radiation therapy or a mastectomy.

This study analyzed preserved tumor samples from 43 prostate cancer patients who later received radiation therapy after rising PSA levels were detected following a radical prostatectomy.

A new study has identified a group of molecules in prostate - cancer cells that doctors might one day use to distinguish which patients should be treated with radiation therapy if rising PSA levels indicate their cancer has recurred after surgical removal of the prostate.

The findings inject hard facts into a debate that has long divided the medical community, with many radiation oncologists preferring adjuvant therapy — radiation given soon after prostate removal to kill off any remaining cancer cells — and many urologists preferring salvage therapy — radiation given later, when prostate - specific antigen tests suggest it's needed.

With these in vitro test methods, the KU researchers have shown that anti-CD44s antibody can reduce pancreatic cancer cell growth, metastasis and ability of the tumors to recur after radiation therapy.

«In order to block tumor recurrence after radiation therapy, we used an antibody to target and inhibit these cancer stem cells,» said Dr. Xu.

Women might still need to undergo chemotherapy or radiation therapy after their surgery — treatments that are known to reduce the risk of cancer recurring — which could delay their recovery further.

This is especially concerning because radiation therapy is increasingly being used after mastectomy as a way to further reduce the risk of the cancer returning in women with more aggressive or advanced disease.

In the first new study, Dr. Sharifi and colleagues from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Harvard / Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center analyzed 213 men whose prostate cancer recurred after radiation therapy and underwenCancer Center, Harvard / Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center analyzed 213 men whose prostate cancer recurred after radiation therapy and underwenCancer Institute and University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center analyzed 213 men whose prostate cancer recurred after radiation therapy and underwenCancer Center analyzed 213 men whose prostate cancer recurred after radiation therapy and underwencancer recurred after radiation therapy and underwent ADT.

After adjusting for clinical factors in a multivariate model, a CNA in a CFS was determined to be a significant independent predictor of decreased response to radiation therapy and higher incidence of recurring cancer.

It is commonly thought that bladder cancers that develop after pelvic radiation tend to be aggressive, with high grades and stages, but this study found that the types, grades, and stages of bladder cancer that developed were similar in patients treated with and without radiation therapy.

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.

If it proves as effective in people as it is in mice, a vaccine could one day be given to cancer patients after surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy to prevent tumors from regrowing.

Axel Huebl, who joined the team a year after Burau, has pushed the code to make optimal use of all of Titan's GPUs, winning him time on Titan through DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program for his PhD research on laser - driven radiation therapy of cancer.

• After 12 years, the incidence of deaths from prostate cancer was 5.4 percent for patients who underwent radiation therapy plus hormone treatment, compared with 13.4 percent for those who had only radiation therapy.

Type I tumors are often treated with radiation therapy, which helps stop or slow cancer growth, given in addition to or after the primary treatment.

When the cancer has invaded the stomach wall or the lymph nodes, chemotherapy (sometimes in combination with radiation therapy) is administered before or after surgery.

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Because of their age, over time their cancer is more likely to spread, and they will therefore more likely need to treat it with hormonal therapy after surgery or radiation.

After being diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2010 and receiving treatment in the forms of chemotherapy, bilateral mastectomy, radiation, reconstruction and hormone therapy, I was left with several residual side effects.

Studies suggest, for example, that yoga therapy can lessen the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatments for people with cancer and facilitate faster recovery after bypass surgery.

A multi-center study of German breast cancer patients showed that IV therapy alongside chemo and radiation keeps vitamin C levels where they should be and counteracts the oxidative stress that cancer treatments cause, reducing side effects and enhancing quality of life during and after treatment.

In those cases, radiation therapy after or before the surgery often extends the period of time the cat remains in remission - just as it does in human breast cancer.

Cancer treatments like chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and steroid therapy sometimes weaken the immune system and limits the effectiveness of vaccinations received while the cancer patient is receiving treatment and for some time Cancer treatments like chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and steroid therapy sometimes weaken the immune system and limits the effectiveness of vaccinations received while the cancer patient is receiving treatment and for some time cancer patient is receiving treatment and for some time after.