Sentences with phrase «standard radiotherapy»

Quality of life for women treated with a more targeted radiotherapy treatment - called accelerated partial breast irradiation - is at least as good as quality of life for women treated with standard radiotherapy, according...

The treatment, called ultrahypofractionated radiotherapy, involves hospital treatment every other day for two and half weeks, compared to every week day for eight weeks for standard radiotherapy.

Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) gives better results than standard radiotherapy in patients with early breast cancer, according to results from a randomised trial presented today (Sunday) to the 2nd Forum of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO).

«The technique used here can be carried out on standard radiotherapy machines so we anticipate that these results will lead to further uptake of this treatment at centres across the country and worldwide.»

Not exact matches

The targeted radiotherapy shrank tumors for 71 % of patients who had already failed standard chemotherapy, but these results came from a small trial that started with 30 patients and then added another 20 after positive data started rolling in.

Following breast conserving surgery, some patients were treated with whole breast radiotherapy — the clinical standard — while others received partial breast radiotherapy.

The standard treatment for glioblastomas consists of removing as much of the tumor as possible with surgery and then eliminating what is left through radiotherapy combined with chemotherapy.

The group is applying advanced image analysis techniques to 4D CT scans already performed as a standard step in targeting lung cancer radiotherapy, to map areas of lung function without additional testing.

The plans were screened to see if they would produce an uneven radiation dose with standard two - dimensional radiotherapy (2DRT).

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.

Quality Assurance and Safety Practices • Committed to high standards of delivering fine quality radiotherapy • In - depth knowledge of security issues and health hazards associated with mishandling of radiation