RADIATION THERAPY CAN BE EFFECTIVE WEAPON AGAINST PROSTATE CANCER, EVMS STUDY SAYS.(FRONT)Joyce, Marie
cancer is the first or second leading cause of death in 112 countries under 70 years of age [1]. Cancer is an acute problem in both developed and developing countries due to the aging and growing populations, accelerated socioeconomic
The findings, which are the latest from a series of studies investigating the benefits of stereotactic bodyradiation therapy(SBRT) for people diagnosed withprostate cancer, are presented at theAmerican Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting. The PACE B (Prostate Advances in Comparative ...
For some patients, a 1%-2% drop in absolute risk is worth it, he said, but most patients wouldn't be willing to endure the side effects of hormone therapy if the absolute benefit is less than 5%. The CCR score is a validated prognosticator of metastasis and death in localized prostate c...
With increasing incidence and geography, cancer is one of the leading causes of death, reduced quality of life and disability worldwide. Principal progress in the development of new anticancer therapies, in improving the efficiency of immunotherapeutic t
Failure definition-dependent differences in outcome following radiation for localized prostate cancer: can one size fit all? ef- sky M, Zietman A: Failure definition-dependent differ- ences in outcome following radiation for localized prostate cancer: can one size fit all? Kupelian P,E Horwitz,...
Rochester, said that because of the limitations, patients' expectations have to be set accordingly. She said it can be challenging to identify lesions in the lungs, for instance, and scanning different body parts like the knee, the pelvis, the breasts and the prostate all require different...
treatments, such as surgery and radiation therapy. Depending on the type of chemotherapy drug, it can be injected or taken orally, and the advantage of chemotherapy is that it enters the bloodstream and travels throughout the body, so it can reach areas that surgery or radiation therapy cannot...
And theACS Pharmacology & Translational Sciencereview has also shown that curcumin may be effective as a complementary approach to treatingthyroid cancerandmultiple myeloma. One clinical trial found that curcumin may help prevent the genetic damage related to radiation therapy for the treatment of thyroi...
Radiation.Radiation. This uses high-energy X-rays or another kind of radiation to kill cancer cells or stop their growth. You can get it from a machine that’s outside your body, or a doctor can put it inside your body near the cancer. A treatment called hyperfractionated radiation therap...