Radiation therapy, also called X-ray therapy, uses high levels of radiation to kill prostate cancer cells or keep them from growing and dividing while minimizing damage to healthy cells. Radiation can be given from a machine outside the body and directed at the prostate (external radiation). ...
progressed or when it's advanced, you can suffer some of the side effects of advanced disease, like blood in the urine or difficulty with urination or pain from chronic or aggressive disease. But complications of prostate cancer are typically associated with the treatment that is potentially ...
Are there any long-term effects patients should be aware of from both surgery and radiation for prostate cancer? Sartor: Yes. With regard to surgery, most of the [side effects] can come relatively early, and then there's a period of healing. Occasionally, there can be problems with urethra...
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Comparison of radiation side-effects in prostate cancer. By - Wolfgang Lilleby, Dag Rune Olsen, Sophie D Fossdoi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)75969-9Wolfgang LillebyDag Rune OlsenS D Foss aThe LancetDearnaley DP, Khoo VS, Norman AR, Meyer L, Nanum A, et al. Comparison of radiation side-...
Radiationis another possibility. With external beam radiation, high-energy beams that deliverphotons, target and kill the abnormal cells of the prostate from outside your body. Another treatment ischemotherapy, which uses powerful chemicals, destroy the cancer cell...
Radiation therapy for nonmetastatic cancer of the prostate is a highly effective treatment modality. Local control and disease-free 10-year survival rates are equal to those of surgery. Despite the radiation doses of at least 70 Gy necessary for tumor control, the rate of radiation-related side...
"There is a general fear of this kind of radiation treatment on the part of some patients and their physicians, but this study shows that it not only effectively eradicates the recurrent cancer in a substantial number of patients, but that there are few serious side effects," says the study...
given its potential to minimize radiation side effects and its higher cost compared to other treatments. Our study shows there is a benefit for men withprostate cancerto receive IMRT over conventional treatment in terms of gastrointestinal side effects. But there is no difference between the two tr...
PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE(S): To measure the effectiveness of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) among community hospital prostate cancer patients with severe late radiation side effects, utilizing a modified SOMA-LENT score system. A secondary objective was to analyze any association of different radiation techni...