Sentences with phrase «with radiotherapy»

At the same time the person receiving the donation is given chemotherapy, occasionally in combination with radiotherapy.

Since you have specifically mentioned the need of knowledge regarding post operational radiology treatments, I'd like to mention here that I have had the first - hand experience of the same since I was responsible for treating post operative patients with radiotherapy at my previous work place.

By combining this inhibition of FAK with radiotherapy, the group was able to achieve a greater treatment effect than with either therapy alone.

«Historically, when treating early lung cancer with radiotherapy, progression at the site of the primary tumor was the most common failure resulting in suffering and death,» said lead study author Robert Timmerman, MD, professor and vice chair of the department of radiation oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas.

[39] More than 50 % of patients treated with radiotherapy underwent a repeat course of therapy, and 25 % underwent three or more interventions with radiation.

For example, a new combination of therapy (which includes a form of chemotherapy with fewer side effects, in conjunction with radiotherapy after surgery) has been found to improve survival rates.

The Curie historical Museum consists of a permanent exhibition where we can learn about the history of the discovery of radioactivity by Pierre and Marie Curie and its first medical applications with radiotherapy.

Among survivors who were previously treated with radiotherapy, those who carried pathogenic or likely pathogenic mutations were at a 12-fold increased risk for subsequent breast cancer, a four-fold elevated risk of thyroid cancer and a 12-fold elevated risk of sarcoma compared to survivors without such mutations.

The OPARATIC trial has paved the way for two additional clinical trials — PARADIGM and PARADIGM - 2 — testing olaparib in combination with radiotherapy and temozolomide in patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma.

«What this study shows is that for every 100 women (from our selected population) treated with radiotherapy, one will have a recurrence anyway, four will have a recurrence prevented, but 95 will have had unnecessary treatment,» said Kunkler.

Most relapses occur within five years, and at ten years local relapse rates were 22.4 % (CI 17.1 - 27.6) with radiotherapy alone, 11.8 % (7.8 - 15.8 %) with neoadjuvant radiotherapy - chemotherapy, 14.5 % (10.1 - 18.9 %) with radiotherapy and adjuvant chemotherapy, and 11.7 % (7.7 - 15.6 %) with both adjuvant and neoadjuvant chemotherapy (p = 0.0017).