Sentences with phrase «new radiation therapies»

Many of the studies posed little risk, and helped in the development of new radiation therapies, the commission says.

She works in a 3D Dosimetry lab under Dr. Mark Oldham where she is helping to develop and characterize an exciting new radiation therapy treatment tool, which is a new radiochromic bolus that changes color when it is irradiated.

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.»

Unlike conventional chemotherapies and radiation that indiscriminately eradicate fast - growing tissues and ravage people's bodies with side effects, new therapies specifically target tumors using tailored cells from individual patients.

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.

Early in the 20th century, radiation therapy was also an emerging cancer treatment, and the nation's preeminent cancer pathologist, James Ewing, staunchly favored treating patients with this promising new method.

For their new study, Beatty and colleagues tested a similar inflammation - blocking strategy, this time in combination with radiation therapy.

Combining radiation therapy with chemotherapy for patients with limited metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) may curb disease progression dramatically when compared to NSCLC patients who only receive chemotherapy, according to a new randomized phase II clinical trial reported today at the 59th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

A form of external beam radiation therapy that delivers a few very large fractions of radiation using new high precision technology.

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 underwent ADT.

The team will also outline how they make and test the new detectors in PRaVDA to ensure they are resistant to the high levels of radiation present in proton therapy.

«New measurements to guide radiation therapy: Data provide insights into effects of ionizing radiation on living cells.»

Two case studies provide an important potential new avenue for treatment of these types of tumors, which are resistant to traditional radiation therapies and difficult to manage even with surgery, the current standard of care.

«For these reasons, finding new therapies such as stereotactic radiation therapy are desperately needed,» Dr. Hannan said.

I also believe that many in radiation oncology embrace new technology, not simply to have the latest and greatest innovations, but rather to reduce the effect of radiation therapy on patients» quality of life.

The white paper recommends that practitioners follow relevant guidance documents and that deviation from consensus recommendations should be supported by clinical studies or pursued in the setting of a clinical trial approved by an institutional review board; that practitioners receive training in a new procedure before beginning its practice, that the training should include a practical, «hands - on» component and that all team members directly involved with the radiation therapy decisions should participate in at least five proctored cases before performing similar procedures independently; and that professional societies should accelerate the generation of new or updated guidance documents for the following disease sites and techniques: skin, central nervous system, gastrointestinal, lung or endobronchial and esophagus, and, while outside the charge of this panel, assess the need for updated guidance documents for accelerated partial breast irradiation using electronic brachytherapy.

«Times are changing and this is also true for the way that radiation therapy can be administered to the patient, so new approaches (intensity modulated radiation) can improve the local control and reduce toxicity.»

Stereotactic body radiation is a newer type of radiation therapy which delivers higher doses of radiation to the tumor but spares the surrounding tissue.

Their findings, to be published in the July issue of the journal Cancer Cell, could explain why some tumors don't respond to radiation or chemotherapy, and provide novel routes for the development of new anti-cancer therapies.

The website contains over 230 procedure, exam and disease descriptions covering diagnostic and interventional radiology, nuclear medicine, radiation therapy and radiation safety and is updated frequently with new information.

By combining local radiation therapy and anti-cancer vaccines with checkpoint inhibitors, researchers from the University of Chicago, working with mice, were able to increase the response rate for these new immunotherapy...

Our multidisciplinary team of mesothelioma experts offers the full range of tailored treatment options, from surgery and chemotherapy, to radiation therapy and clinical trials of promising new treatments.

June 13, 2016 Radiation and vaccination can magnify effects of immunotherapy By combining local radiation therapy and anti-cancer vaccines with checkpoint inhibitors, researchers from the University of Chicago, working with mice, were able to increase the response rate for these new immunotherapy agents.

At the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital, we offer the latest technology, including Varian's TrueBeam ™, a new generation linear accelerator that uses image - guided radiation therapy (IGRT) to provide the safest and most accurate results.

Working with colleagues at the University of Chicago, our experts created a new combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy treatment regimen that helps some patients with advanced head and neck cancer avoid major surgery.

2017: Akila Viswanathan, M.D., M.P.H., executive vice chair, professor, and director of radiation oncology services for the National Capital Region campus and director of gynecological radiation oncology services for Johns Hopkins brought a pioneering new therapy to the Kimmel Cancer Center.

City of Hope patients have access to a wide variety of clinical trials looking into early - detection for lung cancer, the newest chemotherapy treatments, targeted therapies and surgical and radiation approaches — all with the goal of helping extend life.

Ana Kiess, M.D., Ph.D., received the Journal of Nuclear Medicine's Editor's Choice Award for her paper on PSMA - targeted α - particle radiopharmaceutical therapy, a new prostate cancer targeted treatment that delivers radiation - releasing alpha particles to cancer cells that have spread throughout the body.

Voice - Box Saved with New Larynx Cancer Therapy Standard therapy changes for larynx cancer, and, the voice box is spared, after Kimmel Cancer Center investigators prove that, for most patients, combined treatment with chemotherapy and radiation has the same success rate as surgically removing the cancerous voiTherapy Standard therapy changes for larynx cancer, and, the voice box is spared, after Kimmel Cancer Center investigators prove that, for most patients, combined treatment with chemotherapy and radiation has the same success rate as surgically removing the cancerous voitherapy changes for larynx cancer, and, the voice box is spared, after Kimmel Cancer Center investigators prove that, for most patients, combined treatment with chemotherapy and radiation has the same success rate as surgically removing the cancerous voice box.

This Interception Research Team is evaluating unique and new approaches in combination with radiation therapy and surgery.

An oncology clinical trial tests new methods of treating pediatric cancers, such as new drug therapies, new approaches to surgery or radiation or new methods for biologically targeted therapy.

11/19/2007 New Technology to Treat Breast Cancer Shows Promise in Early Application Physicians at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center will present the initial outcomes of their use of a new device that delivers radiation therapy to a specific tumor site at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RNew Technology to Treat Breast Cancer Shows Promise in Early Application Physicians at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center will present the initial outcomes of their use of a new device that delivers radiation therapy to a specific tumor site at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (Rnew device that delivers radiation therapy to a specific tumor site at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (R...

While the general technique — eliminating tumors with focused energy — is not new, radiation oncologists, medical physicists, and scientists are combining a number of modern technologies for producing significant breakthroughs in radiation therapy.

New research led by a radiation oncologist at Roswell Park Cancer Institute indicates that less may be more when it comes to some forms of radiation therapy for cancer.

Stereotactic radiation therapy (SRT, also commonly referred to as SRS, SBRT, radiosurgery and / or Cyberknife - type therapy) is the newest and most convenient treatment available for feline acromegaly.

In addition, new technology has increased the effectiveness and decreased the side effects and risks of radiation therapy.

In the foreword to «The Complete Healthy Dog Handbook,» author Betsy Brevitz, DVM, mentions a few of the new veterinary tools, treatments and procedures that — while rare five years ago — have become commonplace since then: CT and MRI scans, joint replacements, radiation therapy and a host of new drugs and vaccines.

Sometimes cancer is curable - especially if caught early, but often it is a chronic disease that is managed by a combination of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and some new innovative treatments like antibody therapy, immunotherapy, vaccines, cyberknife therapy, etc..

First, doctors are transitioning from the old - fashioned way of administering radiation therapy — an unfocused beam of weak radiation — to the newer method of focused, high - energy radiation administered by linear accelerators.