Biochemical Relapse-free Survival after External Beam Radiation and Brachytherapy for Prostate Cancer Patients Having Intermediate and High-risk Featuresparotid gland functionnasopharyngeal carcinomaintensity-modulated radiotherapyPurpose: Aplidin (plitidespin) is a novel cyclic depsipeptide, currently in Phase ...
Health policies regarding the treatment of prostate cancer should be re-examined to provide greater patient choice after a study found men in New South Wales aged 45 years or more with prostate cancer were twice as likely to undergo radical prostatectomy as external beam radiotherapy, and few had...
作者: Cancer Research UK 摘要: You have external radiotherapy from a large radiotherapy machine. The radiographers position you very carefully. The treatment itself takes from 1 minute to 15 minutes. DOI: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org 年份: 2014 收藏...
A cross-sectional, anonymous telephone survey was conducted to examine sexual problem (SP) among sexually active, Chinese homosexual adults in Hong Kong. Of the homosexual respondents, 49.1% of males and 75.6% of females reported at least one SP, of whom
Image-guided radiotherapy for prostate cancer by CT-linear accelerator combination: prostate movements and dosimetric considerations. Multiple studies have indicated that the prostate is not stationary and can move as much as 2 cm. Such prostate movements are problematic for intensity-mod... JR Wong,...
Conventional treatments for local- ised prostate cancer include active surveillance, radical prostatectomy and radiotherapy (external beam and seed brachytherapy) [3]. While guidelines for choice of treat- ment are not 'clear-cut', radical prostatectomy may be preferentially indicated for patients with...
Sexual (dys)function after radiotherapy for prostate cancer: a review. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2002; 52: 681–693. Article Google Scholar Jonker-Pool G, Van de Wiel HB, Hoekstra HJ, Sleijfer DT, Van Driel MF, Van Basten JP et al. Sexual functioning after treatment for ...
Multidisciplinary medical consensus was against radiotherapy to the neck, and restaging scans showed left paratracheal disease with tracheal and esophageal invasion as well as metastatic disease to the lungs and liver. The two FDA approved multi-kinase drugs for MTC (vandetanib and cabozantinib) were ...
and radiotherapy. While increasingly successful, each of these treatments may cause numerous undesired side effects. For example, surgery may result in pain, traumatic injury to healthy tissue, and scarring. Radiotherapy and chemotherapy may cause nausea, immune suppression, gastric ulceration and seco...
At first, I was treated with radiotherapy at the Beatson in Glasgow."Then I was put on three years of hormone therapy. I am still being treated."I've since been diagnosed with non–Hodgkin lymphoma in my lung – but that won't be affecting the walk."I am determined to make the ...