Sentences with phrase «without radiotherapy»

However, what our trial has shown is that although this is still the case, the proportion of women who will actually have a recurrence without radiotherapy is very small (less than 5 percent), five years after treatment,» said Ian Kunkler, F.R.C.R., professor of clinical oncology at the Edinburgh Cancer Research Center in the University of Edinburgh.

Not exact matches

While gold nanospheres, without any accompanying drug, were found to cause significant cell damage, treatment - resistant cell populations did eventually recover several days after the radiotherapy.

The group is applying advanced image analysis techniques to 4D CT scans already performed as a standard step in targeting lung cancer radiotherapy, to map areas of lung function without additional testing.

A new patent awarded to Fologea, a professor in the Department of Physics, and co-researchers from the University of Arkansas in August 2014 holds promise of a way to combine the oomph of chemotherapy with the precision of radiotherapy, without harm to healthy cells.

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 only thing worse than radiotherapy would be doing it without a life partner... well, and morphine.

Because of this, small cell lung cancer is treated with chemotherapy, with or without additional radiotherapy.