Sentences with phrase «targeted radiotherapy treatment»

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...

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Breast cancer patients who have radiotherapy targeted at the original tumour site experience fewer side effects five years after treatment than those who have whole breast radiotherapy, and their cancer is just as unlikely to return, according to trial results published in The Lancet.

«Targeted radiotherapy limits side effects of breast cancer treatment.»

Work by University of Manchester scientists has explored what allows some cases of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS), a non-invasive form of breast cancer, to resist treatment and come back, as well as identifying a potential new target to improve the effectiveness of radiotherapy.

Although various treatment options such as surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy are available, the mortality rate remains extremely high, so efforts are increasingly being targeted at improving its detection and treatment.

A number of radiotherapies that marry a small but potent amount of radioactive material and a targeted molecular compound have been gaining traction as progressive treatments for malignant NETs, which can develop wherever nerve cells and hormone - producing endocrine cells are present (e.g., gastrointestinal tract, pancreas, lungs, thyroid).

Using ultrasound, Harris hopes to guide radiotherapy treatment to target the tumour more precisely.

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