While the gold standard for treatment remains surgical resection, some elderly and frail patients with comorbidities are not eligible for this procedure. In selected cases, percutaneous thermal ablation, such as
With no other findings of metastatic disease, she underwent radiofrequency ablation of the T8 site. Following, this, she began treatment with zoledronic acid along with THP. With progression of disease five months later, she transitioned to fulvestrant, trastuzumab and pertuzumab. Surveillance MRI ...
though it is not solely responsible for the injurious effects of IR on healthy tissues. However, the relative contributions of each type of cell death are challenging to quantify. Select studies have compared the relative survival advantage of irradiated tissues that have been administered inhibitors ...
Que et al. BMC Cancer (2016) 16:451 Page 2 of 10 Background Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the sixth most common cancer and the third most common cause of cancer-related death worldwide [1]. Surgical resection, liver transplant, or radiofrequency ablation for the treatment of tumors ≤...
Further, beyond the conventional approach of treating the primary pancreatic mass to control pain symptoms, investigators from Israel have been exploring the role of celiac ablation in patients with PDAC.Citation68 With just a single treatment (25 Gy in 1 fraction) delivered partially to the tumor...
ablation. With cryoablation, typically you see tumors shrinking. With Radio Frequency, it doesn’t always happen. That is what makes it trickier, so we have to do biopsies for patients after treatment. And again, the tumor does not always shrink; more typically it does with the cryoablations...
this technology has been evaluated for treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. These investigators presented the basic underlying principles, proof-of-principle studies, and clinical experience with stereotactic arrhythmia radio-ablation. Most recently, stereotactic radio-ablation has been used to safely and effect...
Conversely, the ablation of Smad4 was observed to stimulate stem cell regeneration (Table 1, Fig. 3). Complementary to this, another study has illuminated the protective function of angiopoietin-like protein 2 (ANGPTL2) in intestinal radiation injury, a mechanism mediated through regulation of the...
Ionizing radiation has been pivotal in cancer therapy since its discovery. Despite its therapeutic benefits, IR causes significant acute and chronic complications due to DNA damage and the generation of reactive oxygen species, which harm nucleic acids,
Radio frequency ablation (RFA) kills the tumor cells with heat, while sparing healthy lung tissue. Depending on the size of the tumor, RFA can shrink or kill the tumor, extending the patient’s survival time and greatly improving their quality of life while living with cancer. ...