Sentences with phrase «use of radiation therapy»

The need for repeat surgical intervention or use of radiation therapy following surgery was recorded.

The findings could have implications for the use of radiation therapy in the future.

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Radiation therapy may also require an interruption in breastfeeding, depending on the type of radiation used and the duration of treatment.

The primary aim is to investigate the use of targeted therapy using antibodies and antibody - conjugates and remove toxic chemotherapy and radiation from the treatment to maintain high cure rates and decrease late effects.

The model significantly improved prediction of response to radiation therapy over the use of Gleason score and lymph - node status alone;

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.

Using data from a randomized trial of 206 men treated with either radiation or, radiation and six months of hormonal therapy, researchers compared early markers of prostate cancer death to identify men at risk of dying early.

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.

Whereas the photons used in conventional radiation therapy produced a kind of fog of small clumps of ionization, protons — 2,000 times heavier — left a dense and distinct line of ionization.

«The use of advanced technologies may allow radiation therapy to be delivered in larger doses per treatment safely and potentially translate into an overall survival difference in NSCLC patient populations while improving patient quality of life through an acceleration of treatment courses,» said Dr. Iyengar.

Previous studies also demonstrate that moderate hypo - fractionated radiation therapy (HRT), consisting of daily treatment for one month using a larger dose per treatment, provides a similar low risk of recurrence, and may even be lower with HRT than CRT.

Reinhart - King said their findings might enable future fractionated radiation — longer term bouts of therapy using a lower intensity of radiation than most of today's therapies.

The second visualization was a movie captured at 23,000 - times magnification that revealed the movements of a group of nanoparticles reacting to an electron beam, which mimics the effects of the infrared radiation used in cancer therapies.

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.

«The ideal next step,» Prof Morris will say, «would be to undertake randomised comparisons of LDR - PB boost against its principal alternatives — temporary high - dose - rate brachytherapy implants (HDR - PB) 3, stereotactic body radiation therapy using extreme hypofractionation4, and combined surgery and post-operative radiation therapy.

A form of external beam radiation therapy that delivers a few very large fractions of radiation using new high precision technology.

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.

Since whole - brain radiation is associated with significant cognitive effects and the use of additional radiation therapy for progression is common in this population, the Yale researchers suspect that patients with the ALK mutation would benefit from radiation focused on individual metastases.

The radiation used for cancer therapies is a much more targeted version of what exists in outer space, and exposure to that radiation presents a major health risk, and thus a serious challenge for NASA, SpaceX, and other organizations trying to explore the solar system.

Examples of this tradition include the early use of neutron generators in radiation biology and therapy, and the work of the Ruska brothers concerning electron microscopy.

This study, «Practice patterns of photon and proton pediatric image guided radiation treatment: Results from an International Pediatric Research Consortium,» evaluates the use of IGRT in treatment planning for pediatric cancers in an international consortium comprised of seven institutions using either photon or proton therapy with dedicated pediatric expertise.

IGRT is the process of using frequent imaging, typically performed in the treatment room prior to radiation delivery, throughout a patient's course of radiation therapy treatment to improve localization of the target and normal structures, which allows for more precise and accurate radiation delivery.

Dr. Raquibul Hannan, left, and Dr. Robert Timmerman led a team that successfully used stereotactic body radiation therapy for the first time to treat an often deadly complication of kidney cancer.

The stereotactic ablative radiation therapy (SABR) was used to treat inferior vena cava tumor thrombus (IVC - TT) that reached the heart, a complication of kidney cancer in which the tumor extends into the venous system − the system of veins that return blood to the heart.

«Our case studies showed similar survival with the use of stereotactic radiation therapy compared with surgery,» said lead author Dr. Raquibul Hannan, Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology and co-leader of the Kidney Cancer Program at the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Image guided radiation therapy (IGRT) is a commonly used modality to ensure treatment accuracy in the management of pediatric tumors; however, consensus recommendations are needed in order to guide clinical decisions on the use of IGRT in treating pediatric patients, according to a study published in the September - October 2014 issue of Practical Radiation Oncology (PRO), the official clinical practice journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).

The white paper recommends that practitioners follow relevant guidance documents and that deviation from consensus recommendations should be supported by clinical studies or pursued in the setting of a clinical trial approved by an institutional review board; that practitioners receive training in a new procedure before beginning its practice, that the training should include a practical, «hands - on» component and that all team members directly involved with the radiation therapy decisions should participate in at least five proctored cases before performing similar procedures independently; and that professional societies should accelerate the generation of new or updated guidance documents for the following disease sites and techniques: skin, central nervous system, gastrointestinal, lung or endobronchial and esophagus, and, while outside the charge of this panel, assess the need for updated guidance documents for accelerated partial breast irradiation using electronic brachytherapy.

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.

«These studies suggest the potential for dramatically reducing the dose of chemotherapy or radiation and thereby reducing the side effects of standard chemotherapy by enhancing the targeting of cancer therapies using HIV receptor blocking drugs.»

Here, our radiation oncologists use a special type of RT — called intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)-- to treat stomach cancer.

For patients with metastatic breast cancer, radiation therapy can be used to treat areas of distant spread (e.g. bone or brain).

The changes included reductions in the use and dose of radiation therapy and chemotherapy drugs called anthracyclines for treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), Hodgkin lymphoma and Wilms tumor, a cancer of the kidneys.

Radiation therapy uses high - energy radiation to target cancer cells in a specific part of the body.

At the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center at Silver Cross Hospital, we offer the latest technology, including Varian's TrueBeam ™, a new generation linear accelerator that uses image - guided radiation therapy (IGRT) to provide the safest and most accurate results.

Many of UT Southwestern's researchers and clinicians are nationally recognized leaders in developing and using radiation therapies to target cancer.

Due to its cell killing effect, radiation therapy is widely used as a primary source of treatment for numerous types of cancers.

University of Chicago radiation oncologists were among the first in the nation to use intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) to treat pancreatic cancer.

Using this advanced technology enables a range of radiation therapy treatments for cancer, so our expert doctors can choose the best treatment for each patient.

These treatments offer a safer, more effective way to deliver radiation to children than conventional radiation therapy, which is used sparingly in children because of the risks of cognitive problems later in life.

Working together with a multidisciplinary team of cancer specialists, our department uses highly advanced cancer care techniques including multimodality imagaing for defining tumor volume, state - of - the - art intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), MRI - based treatment planning, and interstitial brachytherapy using high dosage rate treatment.

Radiation — Radiation therapy is the use of high - energy radiation — primarily X-rays — to kill cancer cells.

This type of treatment is often used along with other cancer treatments, including radiation therapy or surgery to remove a cancerous tumor.

Generally, treatment of metastatic brain tumors will include surgery, stereotactic radiosurgery, conventional radiation therapy and chemotherapy, each used independently or in combination.

Radiation therapy (also referred to as radiation oncology) is a type of cancer treatment that involves the use of the use of high - energy radiation, primarily X-rays, to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors.

11/19/2007 New Technology to Treat Breast Cancer Shows Promise in Early Application Physicians at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center will present the initial outcomes of their use of a new device that delivers radiation therapy to a specific tumor site at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (R...

Typically used in conjunction with radiation, hormone therapy works to keep cancer cells from growing by removing or blocking the action of certain hormones.

It is used as a part of short term cleansing programs used to promote good health, support external healing clay treatment (pelotherapy) and removal of heavy metals and recovery from chemical therapies and radiation.

Also, while ketosis is a natural physiologic state of the human body, caution should be provided when it is used with chemotherapy and radiation therapy, as these treatments may create an unnatural environment within the body that is difficult to manage.

Used in Hospitals and cancer centers in Hawaii to relieve the pain of burns caused by radiation therapy.

Primary treatment for specific tumor types Indications for the use of external beam radiation therapy for the primary treatment of tumors has expanded significantly with the emergence of SRS for pets.