Sentences with phrase «treated by radiation»

The standard of care for locally advanced, which is usually treated by radiation and chemotherapy combination.

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Publishing a commentary about Bitcoin by an institutional economics professor is as responsible as letting a village witch doctor give lectures on the merits of proton radiation therapy to treat cancer («The Bitcoin myth,» March 3).

«Cervical cancer patients are currently treated as a uniform group based on chemotherapy and radiation regimens that help the largest percentage of people; however, one third of these patients are not helped by standard therapies,» Banister said.

Combining biology and medicine with engineering, the discipline solves health - related problems by developing electrocardiograms and pacemakers for heart disease, for instance, and radiation technology for treating cancer.

If hypofractionated radiation with curative intent can reduce the treatment time for lung cancer patients by half with no greater toxicity, and with equivalent — if not better — tumor control and survival outcomes, this research could result in a change in the paradigm of how a large subset of locally advanced NSCLC patients are treated.»

The findings imply that radiation could be especially effective in treating human breast cancers caused by similar mutations.

By contrast, when the team treated the mice with radiation plus a CCL2 - blocking antibody, the tumors» recruitment of monocytes and macrophages was sharply reduced, and the tumor growth was slowed more dramatically.

ADT, which suppresses the production of testosterone by either medical or surgical castration, remains the gold standard for treating advanced prostate cancer, either alone or with radiation therapy.

«Drug could limit spread of deadly brain tumors: Study shows PPF could help treat glioblastomas by sensitizing tumors to chemotherapy, radiation treatments.»

The treatment's effect on the original tumor was less dramatic, but still impressive: The combination of Listeria and radiation shrank the tumor by 64 %, and Listeria alone by about 20 % compared with saline - treated mice.

Currently, most women with breast cancer are treated with breast - conserving surgery followed by radiation to the whole breast.

A new study by UCLA scientists has found that women diagnosed with breast cancer and treated with a one - week regimen of partial breast radiation after the surgical removal of the tumor, or lumpectomy, saw no increase in cancer recurrence or difference in cosmetic outcomes compared to women who received radiation of the entire breast for a period of up to six weeks after surgery.

«These tumors occur in up to 23,000 Americans annually, and are typically treated with surgical resection of the tumor followed by chemotherapy and radiation treatment.»

But because the vinclozolin - induced fertility changes occurred in almost every male rat descended from a treated mother rather than in a small percentage of offspring (as is seen in germ line mutations caused by radiation), Skinner suspects an epigenetic mechanism — a change that doesn't mutate the DNA sequence of an animal, but rather affects how genes are expressed.

One way of treating cancer is by inhibiting VEGFA, which decreases leakage and edema and improves the effects of chemo - and radiation therapy.

Glioblastoma is typically treated with surgery, followed by radiation and chemotherapy.

In a recent multi-institutional phase II trial of Onyx - 015 led by investigators at University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 30 patients with advanced head and neck cancer, most of whom had failed surgery or radiation therapy, were treated.

Patients are treated by a multi-disciplinary team that may include medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, surgical oncologists, neuro oncologists, internal medicine, family practice and radiology; board certified surgeons who are specialists in reconstructive, gynecologic, urologic and neurologic surgery; nurses specially trained in cancer treatment and certified to administer chemotherapy, counselors, who address a full range of psychosocial needs from diagnosis through bereavement; clergy to support all faiths; physical, occupational, speech and nutritional therapists.

Side effects You're likely to feel more fatigued as the weeks of radiation treatment go by, and the skin around the area being treated may suffer.

Under active surveillance, doctors do not treat the cancer but instead keep a watchful eye on it to make sure it doesn't become aggressive — sparing patients the harms caused by surgery or radiation therapy, said Krist, a professor of family medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Next Page: If one doctor doesn't have the answer, keep looking [pagebreak] If one doctor doesn't have the answer, keep looking When Ann Dosch, 58, of Millersville, Pa., had an exploratory lumpectomy in March 2007, she discovered that she had breast cancer and was treated with another lumpectomy followed by radiation therapy.

A second phase 3 study presented Sunday found that adding radiation to hormone therapy, also known as androgen - deprivation therapy (ADT) in patients with locally advanced or high - risk prostate cancer reduced the seven - year risk of dying by 43 percent compared to treating with hormone therapy alone.

Her breast cancer was actually treated successfully by a lumpectomy then radiation therapy which is the standard practice for treating breast cancer.

Skin damaged by radiation treatment in cancer patients has also been treated by some herbalists with a Green Tea extract.

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Inflammatory breast cancer is generally treated first with systemic chemotherapy to help shrink the tumor, then with surgery to remove the tumor, followed by radiation therapy.

The FDA currently requires that irradiated foods include labeling with either the statement «treated with radiation» or «treated by irradiation» and the international symbol for irradiation, the radura.

The opposite of hyper is hypo and oncologists often use a few large doses of radiation to treat tumors that can not be removed by surgery.

Radiation therapy machines treat cancer by delivering high energy radiation to a tumor, killing the tumor cells.

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Multiple treatments are administered in treating cancer with radiation, the precise schedule and number of doses are determined by the goals of treatment.

In the past, radiation therapy was commonly used to treat cancers that were non-resectable by surgeons or for tumors that were incompletely removed at surgery.

Better survivals may be obtained when treating meningiomas with surgery followed by radiation.

The tumor is most commonly treated by surgical removal it, followed by radiation.

Our hypothesis is that by delivering stereotactic radiation therapy, we will safely decrease the number of treatments needed to effectively treat nasal tumors in dogs.

What climate models assume is a wide - ranging compendium of physical processes that are either well known but too complicated to incorporate into the climate model (for example the direct radiational effect of Carbon Dioxide on greenhouse warming is considerably * simplified * compared to the most sophisticated «line - by - line» radiation models that are available, simply because there isn't enough computer power to make the line - by - line calculation at every location on Earth at every time step within in a GCM), or are not sufficiently well - known to treat them with complete certainty.

All the NASA and Trenberth et al energy diagrams treat solar radiation and atmospheric radiation exactly the same, with a clear implication that the energy in radiation from the atmosphere is converted to thermal energy in the surface, which could then exit by evaporation, diffusion or additional radiation.

Yet on these sites (and in the media, and even by a few semi related scientists who kinda keep an eye on the issue or are semi involved) treat it as if it is some sort of both immediate, and linear, contemporaneous correlation between increased lower level atmospheric re radiation, and increased (or changed) global ambient air temperatures, which is absurd, and belies any real deep understanding of the actual issue.

«EPA has identified significant flaws in the state's fracking proposals, particularly inadequate plans to treat hazardous wastewater, questions about unsafe levels of radiation in fracking waste, and the absence of any consideration of the environmental impacts of the infrastructure associated with fracking, such as pipelines and compressor stations,» said a statement issued by a coalition of hydrofracking opponents including Catskill Mountainkeeper, Citizens Campaign for the Environment, Environmental Advocates of New York, Natural Resources Defense Council and others.

He works as a radiation therapist and was distressed by how many young people were being treated for cancer.

Zofran (generically known as Ondansetron) is a drug created by GlaxoSmithKline to treat nausea and vomiting in chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and surgery patients.