THE EWING FAMILY OF TUMORS But cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy can havesome long-term side effects, and children who survive their cancer will need carefulattention for the rest of their lives.Since the 1960s, most children and teens... Grier,E Holcombe - 《Pediatr...
Introduction: Radiation therapy (RT) was the first treatment modality demonstrating cure of Hodgkin's disease. Long-term side-effects of this treatment, however, have become evident in the past few years. Patients and methods: By reviewing the results of megavoltage radiotherapy as initial ...
The long-term side effects of radiation therapy for benign brain tumors in adults Radiation therapy plays an integral part in managing intracranial tumors. While the risk:benefit ratio is considered acceptable for treating malignant tumo... O Al-Mefty,JE Kersh,A Routh,... - 《Journal of Neuros...
Figure. Mean 5-year scores for head and neck cancer–specific and general health outcomes by level of pain at 1 year. Aesth indicates aesthetics; QOL, quality of life; and Soc Disrupt, social disruption. Table 1. Patient, Disease, and Treatment Characteristics of 337 Patients With a History...
Radiotherapy can induce an immunological response. One limiting factor is side effects on normal tissue. Using FLASH radiotherapy, side effects could possibly be reduced. The efficacy of FLASH in relation to conventional radiotherapy (CONV-RT) has not be
Side effects and quality of life after inadvertent radiation overdosage in brachytherapy of head-and-neck cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2002;52(4):944-95211958887PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 38. Wijers OB, Levendag PC, Braaksma MMJ, Boonzaaijer M, Visch LL, Schmitz PIM. Patients ...
Short and long-term evaluation of the impact of proton minibeam radiation therapy on motor, emotional and cognitive functions Charlotte Lamirault, Valérie Doyère, Marjorie Juchaux, Frederic Pouzoulet, Dalila Labiod, Remi Dendale, Annalisa Patriarca, Catherine Nauraye, Marine Le Dudal...
Yet, breast cancer risk may vary depending on the timing of exposure and according to exposure trajectories for different agents [16, 20, 49]. Investigating the exposure trajectories may accelerate the understanding of the effects of airborne PCBs and BaP exposures on breast cancer risk. In the ...
To evaluate the long-term health-related quality of life (HRQL) after external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) or vaginal brachytherapy (VBT) among PORTEC-2 trial patients, evaluate long-term bowel and bladder symptoms, and assess the impact of cancer on these endometrial cancer (EC) survivors. ...
Acute toxicity was assessed by applying CTC version 2.0; late toxic effects were scored according to European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer/Radiation Therapy Oncology Group criteria. Toxicity from surgery, IOERT, and chemoradiation were pooled because of the difficulty to precisely ...