Sentences with phrase «pelvic radiation therapy»

With an average follow - up of 15 years, bladder cancer incidence in uterine cancer patients treated with pelvic radiation therapy was twice as high as that seen in patients treated without radiation.

In addition to surgery, 38 percent of patients undergo pelvic radiation therapy to decrease uterine cancer recurrence.

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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.

Frontline therapies today include external radiation of the pelvic area as well as internal radiation of the area through the vagina.

Usual treatment of patients with stage lA2 and lB1 lesions consists of either radical hysterectomy with bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection or radiation therapy (RT), which combines two kinds of therapy — whole pelvic teletherapy and local brachytherapy (implants).