Sentences with phrase «therapy after radiation therapy»

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Some weeks later, after radiation therapy that was designed to limit the extent of the surgery, he wrote to tell me that the doctors were astounded to learn that the tumor had been stopped cold by the radiation and that surgery would not be required.

Tralins, A. Lactation after conservative breast surgery combined with radiation therapy.

Women who have had breast cancer may not be able to breastfeed after radiation therapy or a mastectomy.

This is done after any radiation therapy is complete.

This study analyzed preserved tumor samples from 43 prostate cancer patients who later received radiation therapy after rising PSA levels were detected following a radical prostatectomy.

«What we found is that the addition of radiation therapy after prostatectomy does lead to a noticeable increase in GI [gastrointestinal] and GU [genitourinary] side effects.

A new study has identified a group of molecules in prostate - cancer cells that doctors might one day use to distinguish which patients should be treated with radiation therapy if rising PSA levels indicate their cancer has recurred after surgical removal of the prostate.

In particular, the study suggests that two miRNAs — miR - 4516 and miR - 601 — in tumor cells along with Gleason score and lymph node status may help identify patients who might experience rising PSA after they've been treated with radiation therapy.

But up to 30 to 40 percent of these patients experience rising PSA levels after surgery, and these patients are often treated using radiation therapy.

The findings inject hard facts into a debate that has long divided the medical community, with many radiation oncologists preferring adjuvant therapy — radiation given soon after prostate removal to kill off any remaining cancer cells — and many urologists preferring salvage therapy — radiation given later, when prostate - specific antigen tests suggest it's needed.

Strikingly, the treatment approach didn't make a difference to 10 - year survival: Ninety - nine percent of the more than 1600 men in the trial were alive after a decade, whether they had initially received radical surgery, radiation, or active monitoring, which meant no immediate therapy, but intervention as needed.

With these in vitro test methods, the KU researchers have shown that anti-CD44s antibody can reduce pancreatic cancer cell growth, metastasis and ability of the tumors to recur after radiation therapy.

Blocking this inflammation after radiation therapy brought a significant improvement in survival in a mouse model of the disease.

«In order to block tumor recurrence after radiation therapy, we used an antibody to target and inhibit these cancer stem cells,» said Dr. Xu.

MICE can survive a dose of radiation that should have killed them when given a double - drug therapy — even if they get the drug cocktail 24 hours after exposure.

Women might still need to undergo chemotherapy or radiation therapy after their surgery — treatments that are known to reduce the risk of cancer recurring — which could delay their recovery further.

This is especially concerning because radiation therapy is increasingly being used after mastectomy as a way to further reduce the risk of the cancer returning in women with more aggressive or advanced disease.

Quantitative evaluation shows higher tract densities after androgen deprivation and radiation therapy, reflecting gland shrinkage and subsequent fibrosis.

In the first new study, Dr. Sharifi and colleagues from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Harvard / Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center analyzed 213 men whose prostate cancer recurred after radiation therapy and underwent ADT.

«We were surprised to see that these changes — reduced grey matter volume and ventricular enlargement — occurred after just a few weeks of treatment and continued to progress even after radiation therapy was completed,» says Dietrich.

The study showed that patients who held their breath during radiation therapy had only a 1.4 percent rate of ischemic heart disease after 8 years of follow up and an estimated rate of 3.6 percent after 10 years.

After adjusting for clinical factors in a multivariate model, a CNA in a CFS was determined to be a significant independent predictor of decreased response to radiation therapy and higher incidence of recurring cancer.

It is commonly thought that bladder cancers that develop after pelvic radiation tend to be aggressive, with high grades and stages, but this study found that the types, grades, and stages of bladder cancer that developed were similar in patients treated with and without radiation therapy.

This research could have important implications for cancer survivors, given that hypopituitarism is one of the main causes of poor quality of life after brain radiation therapy.

Clinicians should be aware of a small increased risk of second primary cancers after radiation therapy compared with men receiving surgery.

Oncologists have long known that in rare cases, after patients receive radiation therapy to shrink a tumor, the immune system will mount an aggressive response that wipes out not only the tumor, but metastases throughout the body that hadn't been treated with the radiation.

If it proves as effective in people as it is in mice, a vaccine could one day be given to cancer patients after surgery, radiation therapy, or chemotherapy to prevent tumors from regrowing.

Toxicity and disease recurrence assessment was conducted weekly while patients received radiation therapy; four months after treatment completion; every three months for one - and - a-half years; every four months between one - and - a-half and three years; every six months in years three to five; and then annually until death.

Toxicities occurring ≤ 180 days from the start of radiation were considered acute, and those occurring > 180 days after radiation therapy were considered late effects.

Axel Huebl, who joined the team a year after Burau, has pushed the code to make optimal use of all of Titan's GPUs, winning him time on Titan through DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program for his PhD research on laser - driven radiation therapy of cancer.

• After 12 years, the incidence of deaths from prostate cancer was 5.4 percent for patients who underwent radiation therapy plus hormone treatment, compared with 13.4 percent for those who had only radiation therapy.

Type I tumors are often treated with radiation therapy, which helps stop or slow cancer growth, given in addition to or after the primary treatment.

However, approximately twenty percent of meningiomas are aggressive and can recur even after surgery and radiation therapy.

When the cancer has invaded the stomach wall or the lymph nodes, chemotherapy (sometimes in combination with radiation therapy) is administered before or after surgery.

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Because of their age, over time their cancer is more likely to spread, and they will therefore more likely need to treat it with hormonal therapy after surgery or radiation.

After being diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2010 and receiving treatment in the forms of chemotherapy, bilateral mastectomy, radiation, reconstruction and hormone therapy, I was left with several residual side effects.

Studies suggest, for example, that yoga therapy can lessen the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatments for people with cancer and facilitate faster recovery after bypass surgery.

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A multi-center study of German breast cancer patients showed that IV therapy alongside chemo and radiation keeps vitamin C levels where they should be and counteracts the oxidative stress that cancer treatments cause, reducing side effects and enhancing quality of life during and after treatment.

Until then, chemotherapy and radiation therapy were the two main solutions offered after removal of cancerous tumors, just like in people.

Detailed discharge instructions will be provided before and after I - 131 therapy, but radiation risks are minimal once a cat returns home.

Adjuvant chemotherapy (after surgery or radiation therapy) may help to prevent or delay the onset of metastases.

Recently, a median survival time of 7 months was reported for dogs receiving radiation therapy along with chemotherapy; whereas a combination of surgery and chemotherapy showed more encouraging median survival rates of 235 - 366 days with up to 28 % surviving two years after diagnosis.

For dogs with Grade I and II tumors, recovery is excellent after surgical removal and radiation therapy.

Some dogs with a focal lesion may experience complete remission after radiation therapy.

In those cases, radiation therapy after or before the surgery often extends the period of time the cat remains in remission - just as it does in human breast cancer.

If the tumor can not be completely surgically removed, your veterinarian may recommend radiation therapy after surgery, which has been shown to be very effective in reducing the size of the tumor.

Cancer treatments like chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and steroid therapy sometimes weaken the immune system and limits the effectiveness of vaccinations received while the cancer patient is receiving treatment and for some time after.