Sentences with phrase «undergo radiation therapy»

Many patients undergo radiation therapy (RT) on an outpatient basis.

Most have examined nuclear bomb survivors and people undergoing radiation therapy.

• 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.

As such, beet kvass and juice are frequently recommended for cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy.

Results published so far are promising: Breast - cancer patients who practice yoga while undergoing radiation therapy have lower levels of stress hormones and report less fatigue and better quality of life.

He was referred to the Animal Cancer & Imaging Center (ACIC) in Canton, MI and underwent radiation therapy and surgery to remove his tumor.

She was involved in multiple clinical trials including the development of a novel pain assessment tool in dogs undergoing radiation therapy.

Not exact matches

Stomatorrhagia (bleeding in the mouth) is commonly seen in patients undergoing chemotherapy and / or radiation therapy.

There was also no change based on whether patients had undergone hormone therapy, a common treatment for prostate cancer which lowers the male hormone and can be combined with daily radiation.

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.

The advantage of proton therapy is that there may be a procedure I could undergo in the future that uses targeted radiation to target the tumorous tissue and that could potentially kill off my tumor.

• White women who died were less likely to have undergone surgery and receive radiation therapy.

Twenty - two patients with elevated prostate - specific antigen and biopsy - proven prostate carcinoma who underwent MRI of the prostate at 1.5 T with endorectal coil were divided into two groups: those who were treated with androgen deprivation, radiation therapy, or both, and a Gleason - matched control group who had not received such therapy.

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.

In addition to surgery, 38 percent of patients undergo pelvic radiation therapy to decrease uterine cancer recurrence.

A highly targeted cancer radiation therapy may offer a safe and effective treatment option for elderly pancreatic cancer patients unable to undergo surgery or combined chemotherapy and radiation therapy, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Patients who underwent a laryngectomy, on average, lived nearly two years longer than those on chemotherapy and radiation therapy.

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.

Most lung cancer patients undergo 4D CT as standard - of - care to help radiation oncologists develop a personalized plan to account for breathing motion during therapy.

This is the first population - based study to compare the follow - up intensity of American men with prostate cancer who have not undergone aggressive treatment with those who opted to undergo various forms of aggressive therapy, such as surgery and radiation.

«Our findings indicate that physicians should feel confident recommending radiation therapy to patients who are too sick to undergo surgery or who choose not to undergo surgery for other reasons,» said Andrew M. Farach, MD, a radiation oncologist at Houston Methodist Hospital and lead author on the study.

All of the patients in the trial underwent between six and nine weeks of external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer.

Overall, 62 % of patients underwent an operation, 15 % received radiation therapy (RT) as their primary therapy, 3 % received both operation and RT, and 18 % did not receive either therapy.

«The hope is that the combination of the most potent chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and immunotherapy will help make patients who were previously considered non-surgical able to undergo curative surgery,» says Gan.

The doctors immediately referred the family to MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital, where Claudia underwent several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation therapy, along with several painful bone marrow biopsies and spinal taps.

«People who undergo chemotherapy or radiation therapy for oral cancer often lose their sense of taste, leading to decreased interest in food, weight loss, and malnutrition,» said lead author M. Hakan Ozdener, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., a cellular biologist at Monell.

I am very encouraged by this recent study, published in January 2014, looking at the ketogenic diet and intermittent fasting as an adjunct nutritional therapy to be administered to cancer patients undergoing standard radiation therapy in cancer treatment.

Boosting the body's energy levels, astragalus is also a promising medicine to use for those undergoing chemotherapy or radiation therapy.

Twenty men had undergone some treatment for prostate cancer by the time they completed the possible selves interview (i.e., hormone therapy, radiation, surgery, seed implants).