Sentences with phrase «prior radiation treatment»

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At two years after treatment, more than 57 percent of men who had normal sexual function prior to treatment reported poor sexual function after surgery, compared with 27 percent who reported poor sexual function after external beam radiation, 34 percent after brachytherapy, and 25 percent after active surveillance.

In past imaging studies, my colleagues and I noticed that cervical tumors that took up a lot of glucose prior to radiation treatment tended to be more resistant to radiation therapy than other tumors.

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.

IGRT is the process of using frequent imaging, typically performed in the treatment room prior to radiation delivery, throughout a patient's course of radiation therapy treatment to improve localization of the target and normal structures, which allows for more precise and accurate radiation delivery.

«This is a promising treatment option that may prove not only to be more effective than chemotherapy alone prior to surgery, it may also be better than chemotherapy and standard radiation,» said lead study author Kimmen Quan, MD, a radiation oncologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

And that's usually in the context of treatment for a prior cancer in the head and the historical practice many, many years ago of blasting the tumor with radiation — and so there are a few survivors of childhood cancer who then get secondary cancer from radiation.

The FDA granted approval to durvalumab (IMFINZI ®, AstraZeneca), a checkpoint immunotherapy that targets the PD - 1 / PD - L1 pathway, for patients with unresectable, stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that hasn't progressed after prior chemo - radiation treatment.

Oncospace A radiation oncology physicist developed a complex computerized system, called «Oncospace,» that uses anatomy, radiation dose distributions, toxicity, and outcome data of prior patients to create an optimal treatment plan for those about to be treated.

Newly diagnosed supratentorial brain lesion compatible with a high grade glioma by MR (magnetic resonance) with no prior treatment with either gene therapy, chemotherapy or radiation treatments that is amenable to attempted gross total resection (GTR).

As radiation therapy can sometimes worsen the oral condition, decayed teeth should be evaluated prior to radiation treatment.

At the time of your appointment, the radiation oncologists will discuss the additional tests that are recommended or required prior to radiation treatment, the options and expected outcomes for radiation therapy, and the costs and potential side effects associated with treatment.

Surveys will be administered following the patient's first meeting with their radiation oncologist, following the first intervention delivery and prior to planning, following the second intervention delivery, following the first treatment and following treatment completion.