Sentences with phrase «conventional radiotherapy»
"Conventional radiotherapy" refers to a standard or traditional type of treatment that uses radiation to kill or control cancer cells in the body. Full definition
The treatment is considered safer compared with conventional radiotherapy since it only attacks specific cancer cells.
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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.
IMRT differs from conventional radiotherapy in two very important ways:
Importantly, the findings suggest that proton radiotherapy may not be as toxic to the rest of a child's body as conventional radiotherapy.
They conclude: «Proton radiotherapy resulted in acceptable toxicity and had similar survival outcomes to those noted with conventional radiotherapy, suggesting that the use of the treatment may be an alternative to photon - based treatments.»
Evidence that proton beam therapy is better than conventional radiotherapy is contentious but that hasn't stopped a push for protons.
«Proton beam therapy offers potential to treat childhood brain cancer with fewer severe side effects than conventional radiotherapy.»