The medical records of 236 patients who had been treated for malignant disease with radiotherapy during childhood were examined to determine the long-term effect of the radiation on their growth and development.Results: Mean treatment dose was 35.5 Gy; mean age at treatment was 7.2 years; and me...
Twenty-two patients had complications considered to be delayed side effects of radiotherapy. Two patients had visual deterioration developing 3 and 6 years after treatment; six had pituitary dysfunction; and 17 had varying degrees of parenchymal changes of the brain, occurring mostly in the temporal ...
However, the late effects of RT alone have not been well documented in such patients. In the current study, we reviewed a retrospective and multi-institutional series of 126 patients with intracranial germinoma treated by RT alone and evaluated the long-term results of RT....
Effect of defini- tive radiotherapy on the long-term outcome in patients with solita- ry extramedullary plasmacytoma [ J ]. Hematol Oncol, 2015,10 (2) : 2261 - 2262.Skora T, Pudełek K, Nowak-Sadzikowska J, et al. Effect of definitive radiotherapy on the long-term outcome in ...
髓母細胞瘤的5年無惡化存活率(progression-free survival)是66.46%.非典型畸胎/類橫紋肌細胞瘤的中間總存活率(median overall survival)和中間放射治療後無失敗存活率(median post-radiotherapy failure-free survival)分別為17個月和11個月.另外,有7位患者(1.89%)於放射治療結束後一段時間(2.8至24年;中位數19.7...
The late effects of current treatments for childhood cancer increase the risk of morbidity and mortality and diminish the quality of life in long-term survivors. We selectively review the negative late cardiac, endocrine, and neurological effects of childhood cancer and its treatments and comment on...
of the diagnosis of another tumor requiring therapy. Among the 27 patients who discontinued treatment for reasons other than surgery or progression, progression (either radiological progression or requirement for another line of therapy – i.e. surgery, other medical therapy or radiotherapy) eventually...
Therefore, to the aim of this study is to investigate the long-term effects of ESWT on BCRL. 2. Materials and Methods 2.1. Study Population Patients who underwent mastectomy after diagnosis of breast cancer and visited the Rehabilitation Medicine Department for lymphedema treatment were recruited ...
(1) Purpose: To investigate the effects of the time interval between initiation of adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy on survival outcomes in patients with completely resected stage IIIA pN2 non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC); (2) Methods: Data on 25
To evaluate the effects of local radiotherapy (RT) on growth, we evaluated the chronological growth profiles and vertebral features of children with high-risk neuroblastoma. Thirty-eight children who received local photon or proton beam therapy to the ab