Patients are asked to take part in this research study because they have esophageal and gastroesophageal junction cancer treated with chemotherapy and
radiotherapy followed by surgery (resected), but still have residual disease in resected tissue.
Inclusion Criteria: • Diagnosed with Stage II / III carcinoma of the esophagus or gastroesophageal junction • Completed pre-operative chemo
radiotherapy followed by surgery • Diagnosed with residual pathologic disease after being surgically rendered free of disease with negative margins following complete resection Exclusion Criteria: • Diagnosed with cervical esophageal carcinoma • Diagnosed with Stage IV resectable disease • Did not receive concurrent chemoradiotherapy prior to surgery
Between April 1993 and March 2003, 1011 patients were randomized to four treatment arms, 252 patients received preoperative radiotherapy alone, 253 patients received preoperative radiotherapy — chemotherapy, 253 patients received preoperative
radiotherapy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy, and 253 patients received preoperative radiotherapy and chemotherapy followed by adjuvant chemotherapy.
Had these women not had radiotherapy, they would have been able to have minor surgery and
radiotherapy following a recurrence,» he explained.
Not exact matches
Following presentation of the initial results, the UK Royal College of Radiologists 2016 breast
radiotherapy consensus stated that partial breast
radiotherapy could be considered for selected patients using the IMPORT LOW technique.
Following breast conserving surgery, some patients were treated with whole breast
radiotherapy — the clinical standard — while others received partial breast
radiotherapy.
Previous
radiotherapy can complicate reconstructive options
following a mastectomy.
However, in the largest study of its kind so far, scientists from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg have now shown that the risk of death from heart disease in breast cancer patients
following radiotherapy or chemotherapy is no higher than it is among the average population.
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.
Appearing in Lancet Oncology, long term results of EORTC trial 22921 with 10.4 years median
follow - up show that 5 - FU (fluorouracil) based adjuvant chemotherapy after preoperative (chemo)-
radiotherapy for patients with cT3 - resectable T4 M0 rectal cancer does not improve survival or disease - free survival.
Called stereotactic body
radiotherapy (SBRT), the study finds patients lived, on average, six to seven months longer
following treatment with minimal side - effects even when they had other severe comorbidities such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart disease and diabetes.
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.
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.
Adjuvant lymph - node field
radiotherapy versus observation only in patients with melanoma at high risk of further lymph - node field relapse after lymphadenectomy (ANZMTG 01.02 / TROG 02.01): 6 - year
follow - up of a phase 3, randomised controlled trial.
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.
[57] The postoperative use of
radiotherapy for anorectal melanoma
following wide local excision has been reported to be associated with high rates of locoregional control (74 % to 82 %) at 5 years, with nearly all patients avoiding the need for abdominoperineal resection and permanent colostomy.
The traditional standard of care had been to abandon aggressive surgical resection in favor of spinal fluid shunting
followed by empiric
radiotherapy.
This protocol is a dose escalation study of Ad - hCMV - TK and Ad - hCMV - Flt3L infused at the time of surgical resection
followed by systemic oral administration of valacyclovir in addition to current standard of care with temozolomide and
radiotherapy.
Breast cancer
following radiotherapy and chemotherapy among young women with Hodgkin disease.
Lin, Y. S., Lin, L. C., and Lin, S. W. Effects of zinc supplementation on the survival of patients who received concomitant chemotherapy and
radiotherapy for advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma:
follow - up of a double - blind randomized study with subgroup analysis.
After a year of treatment, which involved a partial mastectomy to remove a malignant tumor,
followed by eight months of
radiotherapy and chemotherapy, the pop star was given the all clear in November 2006.
The
following three weeks of
radiotherapy ran seamlessly, and Fred's sweet demeanor and fuzzy, lovable appearance quickly made him popular amongst the team of veterinarians, technicians, and students in the Oncology Service who cared for him.