For recurrent tumors, repeat SRS or surgical resection may be considered, whereas additional radiotherapy should be avoided in cases of RN [5, 6]. On perfusion MRI, the relative cerebral blood volume (CBV) and cerebral blood flow (CBF) have shown pooled sensitivity and specificity values of ...
To investigate effects of radiotherapy on normal brain tissue using in vivo neuroimaging in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Methods and materials We used longitudinal MRI to monitor structural brain changes during standard radiotherapy in patients newly diagnosed with NPC. We assessed volumet...
Next article in issue Keywords Salivary glands Irradiation Senescence Mitochondria Stem cells Introduction Head and neck cancer (HNC) is the seventh most prevalent cancer worldwide [1]. The primary treatment approach for the majority of HNC patients involves radiotherapy, often in conjunction with surge...
Currently, major recommended therapeutic approach for CRC are surgery, radiotherapy and immune-targeted therapy, among which drawbacks including recurrence after surgery and toxic adverse effects of metastatic chemotherapy still remain unfixed [5]. Therefore, chemotherapy adjuvant surgery is commonly used in...
involuntary urinary leakage that occurs due to sudden pressure on the bladder during exercise or sharp movement such as sneezing or coughing. and for men who undergo radiation treatment, including external beam radiotherapy or brachytherapy, irritative voiding symptoms and a varying degree of urinary ...
Overall, 84 patients in the imaging surveillance group (45%) had a biopsy of which 41 showed pathological evidence of cancer, yielding a positive predictive value of 49% — meaning only about half of positive biopsies represented a true positive result; the most common source of false-positive...
radiotherapy and surgery for patients with localized advanced esophageal or esophagogastric cancer18,19,20,21. After neoadjuvant treatments, esophagectomy with extended lymph adenectomy in the neck, mediastinum and abdomen was performed as the main component of this curative and radical treatment strategy...
Currently, absorbed dose limits for these organs are based on the extensive experience in external beam radiotherapy (EBRT) [6]. However, the biological effects of EBRT may not be directly transferable to PRRT, as EBRT dose delivery is geometrically highly focused and fractionated whereas PRRT ...
Matching with a suitable donor was not an easy task and after eventually finding one the Frenchman had to go through radiotherapy to receive the new stem cells. He remembers very little of that time, describing it like “living a parallel life” where his body was in the hospital, but...
He wore rakish hats to cover the devastation of radiotherapy. He took his last architecture exam even though he was having regular epileptic fits. He talked of future trips across the world and the buildings he wanted to design. When he was at last consigned to his bed, he decided to sp...