What Is Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT)? It’s an advanced approach to 3D conformal radiation therapy. The IMRT technique is very precise. It uses computer-generated images to plan and then deliver tightly focused radiation beams to prostate cancer tumors. It lets your treatment team vary...
Rectal side effectsBackground: Novel cancer drugs are subject to strict scientific evaluation of safety and efficacy and usually undergo a cost effectiveness analysis before approval for use in clinical practice. For new techniques in radiotherapy (RT) such as image-guided radiotherapy (IGRT), this ...
Stereotactic radiotherapy has increasingly been used to treat cancer inthe brainandlungs. But new data has shown it can also effectively treat prostate cancer. What did the new study find? Astudypublished this month in theNew England Journal of Medicinecompared two groups of patients with early pr...
Start treatment such as pain-relieving radiotherapy Undergo surgery to damaged bone Try complementary therapies, like acupuncture, reflexology, or aromatherapy Managing Other Prostate Cancer Symptoms Other prostate cancer symptoms can include: Loss of libido (sex drive).Side effects of drug treatments for...
as adjuvant therapy after radical surgery and combination therapy with androgen.Besides external-beam radiotherapy,three-dimen-sional conformal radiotherapy,brachytherapy and other techniques are more and more applied in the treatment for prostate cancer.The indication,efficacy and side effects of the ...
"In our experience at Mayo Clinic, the side effects of salvage radiotherapy in patients treated after a radical prostatectomy are minimal," says Dr. Peterson. "Even more importantly, it is the only potential curative treatment possible in these patients once cancer has recurred." ...
Radiotherapy, ConformalMaleComparison 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-effects of conformal and conventional radiotherapy in prostate cancer: A randomised trial. Lancet 1999;353(9149):267-72.10, Viani G A, Stefano E J, Afonso S L. Higher-than-conventional radiation doses in localized prostate cancer treatment; a meta-analysis of ...
Intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) combined with recently developed noninvasive image-guided targeting techniques for tumor localization/repositioning provide a means to further improve on conformal radiotherapy of prostate cancer by optimally sparing the rectum. This refined approach may potentially improv...
In this article, we define the biochemical recurrence of prostate cancer, distinguish SRT from ART, outline the evidence for SRT, and make recommendations with regard to radiotherapy volume and dose. We discuss the known side effects from SRT, weigh the cost and benefit of SRT, and discuss ...