Sentences with phrase «radiation treatments not»

Bekelman points out that fewer radiation treatments not only means less out - of - pocket costs and fewer visits to treatment centers for patients; it also means lower costs for payers and employers.

Not exact matches

For instance, most common adult solid tumors that are not cured by surgical removal are resistant to chemotherapy or radiation control, yet drug therapy is frequently offered as a «possibly effective» treatment because both patient and physician want to believe it so.

I sent him emails, I encouraged him as best I could, but Bill wasn't healed, rather he suffered the surgeries and treatment, both chemo and radiation, that are the result of a primitive but necessary technology.

She has to.Because of his radiation treatments, Romney's body may not produce enough of astress - responding hormone if he is seriously injured, so he has to quickly geta cortisone shot or it could be life - threatening.

While moderate hypofractionation should now be discussed routinely with patients, Bekelman cautions the trials do not offer any evidence for more extreme regimens lasting as few as five radiation treatments.

But the test also revealed that the standard radiation treatment wasn't wiping out the cancer.

Chemotherapy and radiation can cause devastating side effects to children, and it's not clear how beneficial the treatments are for this disease.

Although researchers don't yet know exactly why it was effective, Reynolds said preliminary data show that the modified diet also appears to make glioblastoma tumors more sensitive to treatment with radiation and chemotherapy.

If hypofractionated radiation with curative intent can reduce the treatment time for lung cancer patients by half with no greater toxicity, and with equivalent — if not better — tumor control and survival outcomes, this research could result in a change in the paradigm of how a large subset of locally advanced NSCLC patients are treated.»

Strikingly, the treatment approach didn't make a difference to 10 - year survival: Ninety - nine percent of the more than 1600 men in the trial were alive after a decade, whether they had initially received radical surgery, radiation, or active monitoring, which meant no immediate therapy, but intervention as needed.

Not long after, Senators Edmund Muskie and Mike Gravel requested that AAAS investigate the treatment of molecular biologist John Gofman and biophysicist Arthur Tamplin, who believed that the Lawrence Berkeley Radiation Laboratory and the Atomic Energy Commission had taken reprisal actions against them for their criticism of AEC low - level radiation standards.

«X-ray imaging uses damaging radiation and so is not well - suited for treatment monitoring, which requires imaging sessions every two to three weeks,» he says.

So with an appropriate test, patients could avoid getting additional radiation or chemotherapy treatment they may not need, Dr. Shay said.

Despite improvements in the past few decades with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, a predictably curative treatment for glioma does not yet exist.

The last advance in treatment was in the 1960s with the introduction of radiation therapy, which temporarily decreases symptoms but does not cure DIPG.

Enzalutamide, which is taken as four pills once per day, is already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for men whose disease has not been stopped by other treatments including, surgery, radiation, androgen deprivation therapy and chemotherapy.

«Earlier menopause has been reported in women undergoing radioactive iodine treatment, and given the finite number of primordial follicles women start with at birth, radiation injury to germinal cells is not expected to be reversible,» she cautioned.

Two patients that had previously not responded to available standard treatments, including surgery, external radiation, hormonal and chemotherapy, have received 225Actinium - PSMA - 617 as experimental therapy.

Currently the standard treatment is radiation therapy, which temporarily decreases symptoms but does not cure the disease.

President of ESTRO, Professor Vincenzo Valentini, a radiation oncologist at the Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli, Rome, Italy, said: «This study not only shows a better outcome for the women treated with IMRT, but has an additional value in defining the selection criteria for providing treatment to those patients who will benefit from new frontline technologies.

Though the chemo and radiation had prolonged his life, by the summer of 2003 Drew knew the treatments alone were not going to save him.

«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.

This is the first population - based study to compare the follow - up intensity of American men with prostate cancer who have not undergone aggressive treatment with those who opted to undergo various forms of aggressive therapy, such as surgery and radiation.

The research involves patient volunteers whose cancer has returned or did not respond to standard treatment, which for neuroblastoma includes surgery, chemotherapy, radiation and bone marrow transplants.

For patients with locally advanced pancreatic cancer, the combination of chemotherapy and stereotactic ablative radiation (SABR) may be a promising treatment option, ultimately allowing them to undergo surgery that may not otherwise be an option, according to research presented today at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's (ASTRO's) 56th Annual Meeting.

Men who attended a structured yoga class twice a week during prostate cancer radiation treatment reported less fatigue and better sexual and urinary function than those who didn't, according to a clinical trial led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Patients usually receive surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, but these treatments are not very effective as an estimated 50 percent of GBM patients die within one year, and 90 percent die within three years.

Drugs can not reach the tissue at lethal doses because its blood supply is so poor, while radiation treatments depend on oxygen to trigger cell death.

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.

A new breast cancer clinical trial is testing the idea a major reason why breast cancer returns after treatment and spreads to other parts of the body is because current chemotherapy and radiation treatments do not kill the cancer stem cells.

To mimic the radiation treatment procedure, a batch of cultured cells were carried to radiation room in a similar way to radiation treatment groups but were not exposed to radiation.

UT Southwestern Medical Center's pediatric brain tumor team has dedicated subspecialists, state - of - the - art radiation technology, and access to advanced pediatric treatments that other hospitals in North Texas don't offer.

Chemotherapy and radiation are generally used in these cases, but many patients do not respond to conventional treatment.

For children who don't respond to chemotherapy, there is cryotherapy and laser treatment and radiation available — and of course removal of the affected eye.

These cells may or may not become cancerous in the future; they can be removed early with treatments like surgery or radiation therapy.

If you are an advanced cancer patient who has had a lot of chemotherapy, radiation or surgery or you have a potentially fast - growing cancer, do not use this treatment by itself, use it as the «cancer diet» of a more potent protocol: Chapter on Treatments Rated For Advanced Cancer Patients

We wouldn't tell you to skip a needed treatment but a lot of medications and medical procedures (like radiation therapy) increase oxidation and oxidative stress in our bodies.

Nutritional ketosis has received a lot of attention by cancer researchers in recent years, and many studies show it has great potential not just as a form of cancer prevention but also treatment — in combination with other treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation.16 Research is looking at whether non-toxic metabolic therapies and drug cocktails may be just as effective, with less toxicity.

The reason is that virtually ALL cancer treatments, whether orthodox or alternative, kill cancer cells and in the process of doing this will create an inflammation in the brain (Note: chemotherapy does not cross the Blood - Brain Barrier, but radiation does).

Yoga can improve not only the quality of life after diagnosis, but it appears to diminish the side effects of surgery, radiation, chemotherapy, and other treatments, and may increase the odds of survival.

Drew I know you've been gathering resources and trialing various approaches (and battling with your issues for some time now) but based on what I've seen with clients who have come to me with SPECT scans I have not seen that they drive the treatment plan (if you're working with a doctor) or nutritional interventions to warrant the high cost and invasive nature of the test (radiation exposure).

Not to worry, I'm seeing Aura next week, just before having my radiation treatment.

Treatments for some diseases, such as radiation or chemotherapy, can't be done at home, are expensive, and have greater risks and side effects.

Radiation therapy is still considered the gold standard of treatment for this disease, however clients who do not wish to pursue radiation therapy may be eligible for participation in this study.

Fractionated radiation (typically 15 - 20 daily treatments) may also be a consideration in some cases, in facilities where SRT is not available.

Although not available at AVES, the goal of radiation therapy in the treatment of cancer in your pet is to kill cancer cells and limit damage to normal tissues.

You might not think about pets having to go through cancer treatments like chemotherapy or radiation, but it's often quite common.

Unfortunately, it is not presently possible to completely isolate healthy tissue from cancerous tissue during these surgical, radiation or chemotherapeutic treatments.

This planning process generally takes several days to complete and radiation treatments are not performed the same day as the CT scan.

The one option that the teaching hospital could not offer was cyber knife treatment — targeted intense radiation — which was available through Hope Veterinary Specialists in Malvern, Pennsylvania, approximately 40 minutes away.