Endoscopy in patients receiving radiation therapy to the thorax. Dig Dis Sci. 2002;47(1):79-83.Rodney A. Perez,Dayna S. Early.  Endoscopy in Patients Receiving Radiation Therapy to the Thorax[J]. Digestive Diseases and Sciences . 2002 (1)...
A Patterns of Care Study (PCS) was conducted to evaluate the standards of practice for patients receiving radiation therapy for esophageal cancer from 1996 to 1999. This study examined the evaluation and treatment schemes used during this time and compared these results to the PCS data obtained be...
For the study, the researchers had rectal cancer patients receiving six weeks of neoadjuvant chemoradiation therapy run through a supervised high-intensity interval training program. Each workout, performed three times a week, consisted of eight consecutive intervals of two minutes of higher-intensity r...
Worthington H V, Clarkson J E, Bryan G et al. Interventions for preventing oral mucositis for patients with cancer receiving treatment.Cochrane Database Syst Rev2011; CD000978. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD000978.pub5. Maes A, Huygh I, Weltens C et al. De Gustibus: time scale of loss and ...
The relationship between radiation treatment and adverse effects resulting in changes in appetite was studied in patients with head and neck (H&N) cancer. Path analysis was used to evaluate the following factors in 117 patients receiving radiation therapy for H&N cancer: daily fluctuations in saliv...
receive Physics Direct Patient Care (PDPC) prior to—and throughout—radiation treatment, and one that did not receive PDPC radiation therapy. Patients had different types of primary cancer, most commonly breast, gynecologic or prostate cancer, and most were receiving radiation therapy for the first...
Virtually all were receiving antiretroviral therapy. Twenty-one had primary brain lymphoma, four had central nervous system relapse of NHL, and three of them had received combination chemotherapy. Two patients had associated Kaposi's sarcoma.All patients had clinical neurological deficits, and computed ...
Ten patients received systemic therapies prior to enrollment, with a median of 1 prior systemic therapy (range: 1–2). Efficacy As one patient withdrew consent before receiving pembrolizumab, the sample size for efficacy and safety analyses was 25 patients. The proportion of patients with PFS-6 ...
This study seeks to establish causal models of diet which maintain the appetite of head and neck cancer patients receiving radiation therapy.Sample and methodsWe collected data from 208 patients at two radiation doses, 30/50 Gy, using a questionnaire on appetite and analyzed the items using struc...
receiving chemotherapy at the time of their referral (80.5% vs. 63.1%,p = 0.0098). However, there were no significant differences in age, race, or gender. The proportion of patients receiving radiation therapy was also not significantly different. The proportion of patients that was ...