Sentences with phrase «of radiotherapy treatment»

She underwent another three weeks of radiotherapy treatment.

It also cures nausea, eliminates ulcers, lowers blood sugar levels, prevents diabetes, reduces oxidative stress, inhibits cancerous growth, heals the side effects of radiotherapy treatments, promotes hair growth, and soothes acid reflux symptoms.»

It strengthens the immune system, delays the aging process, cures dermatitis, alleviates menstrual problems, reduces arthritis pain, heals wounds, cures nausea, eliminates ulcers, lowers blood sugar levels, prevents diabetes, reduces oxidative stress, inhibits cancerous growth, heals the side effects of radiotherapy treatments, promotes hair growth, and soothes acid reflux symptoms.

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Some breast centers carry out not only the testing procedures but also treatments (chemotherapy, radiotherapy, etc.) and even restorative surgery if a woman has had part or all of her breast removed.

Breast Cancer Care comments on NICE recommendation of new breast cancer radiotherapy treatment

Findings also show rates of local recurrence were nearly 3 % higher in women who didn't have radiotherapy treatment.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: «Radiotherapy is one of the most clinically and cost - effective treatments for cancer and this funding will bring our additional investment in radiotherapy over the Spending Review period to # 165 milRadiotherapy is one of the most clinically and cost - effective treatments for cancer and this funding will bring our additional investment in radiotherapy over the Spending Review period to # 165 milradiotherapy over the Spending Review period to # 165 million.»

It is generally agreed that around 50 per cent of cancer patients should receive radiotherapy as part of their treatment.

Questions - Cabinet Office Prime minister's questions Ten minute rule motion - health and safety (amendment) Motion - police grants and local government finance reports Adjournment debate - future of stereotactic body radiotherapy treatment in England

31 - day wait for second or subsequent treatment 31 - day wait — 97.6 % of people were treated within 31 days where the subsequent treatment was surgery --(97.7 % in Q2 2011 - 12) 31 - day wait — 99.8 % of people treated within 31 days where the subsequent treatment was an anti-cancer drug regimen --(99.8 % in Q2 2011 - 12) 31 - day wait — 98.6 % of people treated within 31 days where the subsequent treatment was a course of radiotherapy --(98.2 % in Q2 2011 - 12)

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

Two complementary papers published back - to - back recently in the journal Radiotherapy and Oncology and the Journal of Thoracic Oncology outline the treatment success at Wake Forest Baptist.

Approximately one year after successful treatment with cytotoxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy, patients with advanced Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC), which primarily affects heavy smokers, generally relapse with recurrence of tumours that are resistant to further chemotherapy.

«The technique used here can be carried out on standard radiotherapy machines so we anticipate that these results will lead to further uptake of this treatment at centres across the country and worldwide.»

The authors of the study say that improvements in management, multi-drug chemotherapy, immunotherapies, stem cell transplants, radiotherapy and treatments that have less toxic side - effects have all contributed to the improvement in survival from leukemia.

Since this is essentially due to better treatment — including surgery, radiotherapy, and medical treatments such as newer anti-androgens — one would have expected that these favourable trends to be much larger below the ages of 70 or 75, but the data suggest that the improvement is extended to the elderly too.

«Targeted radiotherapy limits side effects of breast cancer treatment.»

«However, a number of clinical trials have suggested that both chemotherapy and radiotherapy are associated with the risk of suffering heart disease as a consequence of treatment,» says Hermann Brenner from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg.

In nuclear medicine, ion beams — using protons and carbon ions — have been used clinically in the radiotherapy treatment of cancer tumours since the 1990s.

However, what our trial has shown is that although this is still the case, the proportion of women who will actually have a recurrence without radiotherapy is very small (less than 5 percent), five years after treatment,» said Ian Kunkler, F.R.C.R., professor of clinical oncology at the Edinburgh Cancer Research Center in the University of Edinburgh.

By combining this inhibition of FAK with radiotherapy, the group was able to achieve a greater treatment effect than with either therapy alone.

Another important aspect of the green - light KTP laser approach, Zeitels adds, is that biopsy and treatment of patients whose cancer involves a single vocal cord usually can be accomplished in the same procedure, whereas radiotherapy requires a prior biopsy to determine the extent and location of the tumor, followed by daily radiation treatments over approximately six weeks.

The first long - term study of a pioneering endoscopic laser treatment for early vocal - cord cancer, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and previously shown to provide optimal voice outcomes, finds that it is as successful as traditional approaches in curing patients» tumors while avoiding the damage to vocal quality caused by radiotherapy or by conventional laser or cold - instrument surgery.

Cancer stem cells, a type of self - renewing cell found in tumors, are of particular interest because they are the main cell type responsible for tumor progression and for resistance to chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and therefore a major cause of tumor recurrence after treatment.

Work by University of Manchester scientists has explored what allows some cases of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS), a non-invasive form of breast cancer, to resist treatment and come back, as well as identifying a potential new target to improve the effectiveness of radiotherapy.

After his first diagnosis, he had been told the chances of relapse were small and had therefore opted to forego radiotherapy, fearing the secondary effects of the treatment; he eventually regretted that decision.

At Colchester General Hospital, the researchers looked at MR scans taken both before treatment and six weeks after the patients had completed chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and found that the patients whose tumors were less heterogeneous — ie more uniform — in terms of texture parameters six weeks after treatment were more likely to survive longer.

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.

The collaborative project between engineers at Lancaster University and scientists and clinicians at The University of Manchester, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust and CERN, will develop a prototype «X-band linac structure» that can be retro - fitted on proton beam therapy equipment, which is used in complex radiotherapy treatments at over 50 hospitals around the world.

The standard treatment for glioblastomas consists of removing as much of the tumor as possible with surgery and then eliminating what is left through radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy.

«These patients are too ill to receive any other treatment, but with stereotactic body radiotherapy we're able to deliver a safe and effective treatment in two weeks that can provide them with a substantial quality of life with minimal side effects.»

Another example is radiotherapy, used in the treatment of different cancers.

If we validate this study in similar, but larger groups of patients, we can develop a test based for CFS breaks; the results would allow us to place patients in one of two categories: those whose tumors do not have CFS breaks and who would likely do well with local treatment alone (e.g. radiotherapy or surgery); and, those patients whose tumors do have CFS breaks and would need a more complex treatment protocol, in addition to RT or surgery, to combat distant spread.»

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.

The authors say this is most likely to be due to the longer length of hospital stay for blood cancers (14 days on average, compared to 8 days across all cancers), and because blood cancers are increasingly treated with complex, long - term treatments including bone marrow transplants, multi-agent chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and extensive diagnostic procedures.

«It is clear from these two studies that we still have a long way to go, but proper selection of patients, improved techniques in radiotherapy and new immunotherapy treatments will help us to fight this terrible disease.»

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.»

«Mesothelioma remains a difficult disease to find better treatment options for, so we asked whether high - dose hemithoracic radiotherapy would decrease the rate or delay the time of local recurrence after chemotherapy and radical surgery,» says lead author Prof Rolf A. Stahel, from the Clinic and Policlinic for Oncology, at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland, and current President of the European Society for Medical Oncology.

The treatment of cancer often involves different forms of cytostatic drugs as well as surgery and radiotherapy.

A number of radiotherapies that marry a small but potent amount of radioactive material and a targeted molecular compound have been gaining traction as progressive treatments for malignant NETs, which can develop wherever nerve cells and hormone - producing endocrine cells are present (e.g., gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, lungs, thyroid).

«Molecular imaging of neuroendocrine tumors optimizes radiotherapy dose: Study shows the use of PET and SPECT tailors radionuclide treatment for neuroendocrine cancer patients and reduces the risk of toxicity.»

For patients for whom radiotherapy is not suitable or feasible due to social circumstances, for whom the risk of late side effects of radiotherapy is high, or who have the prospect of a poor aesthetic outcome following BCT, a mastectomy may still be the preferable treatment option.

«Delaying diagnosis had a significant impact on the treatment eventually received by patients in our study,» said lead author Dr Raviteja Miriyala, senior resident, Department of Radiotherapy and Oncology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.

But death rates are falling, thanks to earlier detection of tumours and improved use of existing treatments — mainly chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

At Colchester General Hospital, the researchers looked at MR scans taken both before treatment and six weeks after the patients had completed chemotherapy and radiotherapy, and found that the patients whose tumours were less heterogeneous — ie more uniform - in terms of texture parameters six weeks after treatment were more likely to survive longer.

They will follow this approach to design a novel treatment plan by rationally combining gemcitabine with cell cycle checkpoint inhibitor, oxygen - enrich gas inhalation, and radiotherapy to significantly inhibit the growth of aggressive glioma.

Treatment of glioma has remained a challenge despite the options for surgical resection followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

LA JOLLA, CA — Discovering that mouse hair has a circadian clock — a 24 - hour cycle of growth followed by restorative repair — researchers suspect that hair loss in humans from toxic cancer radiotherapy and chemotherapy might be minimized if these treatments are given late in the day.

Hepatocyte growth factor (HGF)(or scatter factor (SF) pathways - Met inhibitors could be used in combination with other treatment modalities such as; radiotherapy and / or immunotherapy in treatment of cutaneous melanoma.

Quality of life for women treated with a more targeted radiotherapy treatment - called accelerated partial breast irradiation - is at least as good as quality of life for women treated with standard radiotherapy, according...