1. Pay attention to your diet Generally, after cancer chemotherapy or radiotherapy, patients must pay more attention to their diet. Healthy vegetables and fruits are the first choice. Don't eat greasy and spicy foods. Keep vitamin intake. Protein is also the nutrition that patients need. Eating...
Cancer Research UK says that breast cancer survival over the last 40 years has nearly doubled, and today, eight in 10 women diagnosed with breast cancer will survive their disease for 10 years or more. It is an area of considerable investment by governments and industry. In January, data an...
HOW TO IMPROVE THE EFFICACY OF RADIOTHERAPY FOR INOPERABLE LUNG CANCERup. So, the choice of treatment for a patient must take into account the host (performance status, past history and needs): more treatment will not necessarily translate in better survival or quality of life.P Van HOUTTE...
Cancer metabolism has received a substantial amount of interest over the past decade. The advances in analytical tools have, along with the rapid progress of cancer genomics, generated an increasingly complex understanding of metabolic reprogramming in c
Breast radiotherapy has been an integral part of the breast cancer treatment and is done after breast surgery. All patients who undergo conservative breast surgery need to receive post-operative radiotherapy, with or without regional lymph node irradiati
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Information about the types of radiotherapy, surgical procedures, and the status of chemotherapy was later included in the program. One of the main targets of the SEER program is to record cancer incidences and mortality rates for the entire US population. To provide insight into the potential ...
SBRT:Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT)is a procedure in which a high dose of radiation therapy is delivered to a small and precise area with the hope of eliminating the metastases. SABR:Stereotactic ablative radiation is another radiology technique used to "ablate" or completely destroy a small...
Late toxicity after adjuvant conventional radiation versus image-guided intensity-modulated radiotherapy for cervical cancer (PARCER): a randomized controlled trial. J Clin Oncol. 2021;39:3682–92. https://doi.org/10.1200/JCO.20.02530. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Carrie C, Hasbini A, de...
for effective results. This technique is also useful when important organs such as the carotid artery, nerves, or bronchi are exposed [9]. Additionally, free flaps are useful for covering wounds. However, if the blood vessel on the recipient side is within the irradiation range, the condition...