Background: The use of radiotherapy for the treatment of childhood malignancy has improved long-term survival significantly, and many treated children now survive well into adulthood. As a consequence, long-term effects of childhood irradiation are being seen with increasing frequency. Methods: The me...
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...
The treatment and cure of cancer of the head and neck carry morbidity regardless of the disease process or modality employed. Although the effects of surgery are usually immediately obvious, those of radiotherapy evolve over time. This article reviews the long-term effects of radiotherapy for cancer...
Radiation therapy plays an integral part in managing intracranial tumors. While the risk:benefit ratio is considered acceptable for treating malignant tumors, risks of long-term complications of radiotherapy need thorough assessment in adults treated for
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 ...
A new study has found that a simple, one-off treatment was able to prevent long term side effects of cancer radiotherapies. There are about 2 millioncancer survivorsin the UK, and many of them face premature memory loss and faster occurrence of various diseases resembling premature aging, to...
The long-term effects of radiotherapy on taste and salivary function were studied in 13 patients treated by radiation 1–7 years previously for tumors of the head and neck. Taste function was quantitatively evaluated using a standard forced choice, three-stimulus-drop technique for the determination...
//doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-14873-9Ef f ect of radiotherapy sequence on long‑term outcome in patients with node‑positive breast cancer: a retrospective studyJoohyun Woo, Byung‑In Moon, Hyungju Kwon & Woosung Lim *The optimal sequence of chemotherapy (CT) and radiotherapy (RT)...
However, the association between IPLC radiotherapy and SPLC risk was reversed when analyses were restricted to those who survived at least 5 years (csHR=1.08, P=0.01) and 10 years (csHR=1.16, P=0.009), thus long-term survivors treated with IPLC radiotherapy having a significantly increased ...
One-hundred-twelve children with primary brain tumors received definitive radiotherapy between the years 1958–1979. Sixty-nine patients were alive at intervals of 1–21 years. Thirty-eight patients un...