Sentences with phrase «radiotherapy including»

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In particular, our pediatric radiation oncologists at Floating Hospital for Children offer special expertise in the management of brain tumors, including medulloblastoma, with a combination of post-operative radiotherapy and multi-agent chemotherapy.

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.

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.

He has served as a principal or co-investigator on several training grants, including the NIH T32 Graduate Training Program for Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the NIH R25 Cancer Nanotechnology in Imaging and Radiotherapy.

The Ocular Oncology Service uses cutting - edge treatments and explores the newest treatment techniques, including those used to deliver radiotherapy and chemotherapy to the eye with minimal side effects.

Her current research interests include: in silico modelling of tumour growth and behaviour during chemo / radiotherapy; radiation - induced risk of second cancer; LDR brachytherapy; head and neck cancer radiobiology and therapy.

The institute facilities grouped into the CurieCoreTech include advanced imaging, high throughput sequencing, bioinformatics, reverse phase protein array, proteomics and mass spectrometry, antibody technologies, cytometry, animal housing, and a unique experimental radiotherapy platform (https://science.institutcurie.org/platforms).

Conventional medicine's main types of treatment for breast cancer include surgery, radiation therapy, external beam radiotherapy, chemotherapy, targeted therapy, and hormone therapy.

The wider the excision, the longer the time to recurrence and the longer the survival time but the longest survival times include radiotherapy in the treatment of this tumor.

Tumor types that may respond well to radiotherapy, or where radiotherapy can improve quality of remaining life by reducing pain, include mast cell tumors, sarcomas (cancer of bone, muscle or various connective tissue), lymphosarcoma, and tumors of the mouth, nose, brain and thyroid.

Day care procedures include cataract, radiotherapy, chemotherapy, dialysis, angiography, tonsillectomy, lithotripsy, etc..

Some common day care procedures that are covered include chemotherapy, radiotherapy and hemodialysis.

Radiotherapy is a common treatment for gynaecological cancer (GC) and has many distressing side - effects, including diarrhoea, abdominal cramps, bladder dysfunction, menopause, infertility and sexual dysfunction, which impact on psychosocial functioning and intimate relationships.