Sentences with phrase «received higher doses of radiation»

The radiation - sensitive rats that received higher doses of radiation had a higher concentration of transporters for the neurotransmitter dopamine, which plays a role in vigilance and attention, says Catherine M. Davis, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the study's first author.

Not exact matches

Similar types of more severe cognitive dysfunction are common in brain cancer patients who have received high - dose, photon - based radiation treatments.

The large number of abnormalities appearing so soon after the accident «would indicate that these children almost certainly received a very high dose of thyroid radiation from inhaled and ingested radioactive iodine,» antinuclear crusader Helen Caldicott wrote in a post on her homepage.

The benefit of chemotherapy, in addition to craniospinal radiation, was seen in adult patients with medulloblastoma (MB), including those with localized disease who received high - dose radiation treatment following surgery.

Patients who received the highest radiation doses had a risk of stomach cancer nearly threefold greater than patients who received the lowest doses.

About 80 percent of patients receiving high - dose, short - course therapies had good cosmetic results, similar to longer - course treatments with smaller radiation doses.

In most of these cases, people received high radiation doses through drinking milk from cows that had grazed on iodine - contaminated pasture.

Two groups were analyzed: 126 localized intermediate risk CaP patients who had received image - guided radiation therapy (IGRT) treatments, with a mean dose of 74.6 Gy; and 154 localized intermediate and high risk CaP patients who had undergone radical prostatectomy (RP), which is the surgical removal of the entire prostate gland.

Chernobyl was directly responsible for at least 56 deaths and as many as 4,000 more, according to the World Health Organization, though other estimates vary, and spread radioactive material as far as the U.K. Three Mile Island has never been conclusively linked to any deaths or health effects, though some individuals may have received radiation doses of as high as 100 millirems.

Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center prospectively evaluated the cardiac function biomarkers brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), troponin - I (TNI), and electrocardiogram (ECG) in 25 patients receiving high - dose conformal radiation therapy for thoracic malignancies.

Patients who receive HSCT receive high doses of chemotherapy, with or without radiation, followed by infusion of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs)-- rare cells that reside within the bone marrow and are capable of producing all varieties of blood cells.

HCT and PBSCT allow a patient to receive very high doses of chemotherapy and radiation designed to kill cancer cells.