This study was conducted by the physicians at the Seattle Prostate Institute. Doctors wanted to look at the combination of seed implants and external beam radiation therapy, two different types of radiation therapy, to prolong the long-term disease cure rates for prostate cancer. Over the course ...
Objectives: To review the advances in radiation therapy for prostate cancer and the nursing care of patients with prostate cancer. Data Sources: Peer-reviewed journal articles, including research studies and review articles. Conclusions: Radiation therapy is used to cure early stage prostate cancer, ...
The response of prostate cancer to radiation was well-documented in the pre-PSA era. Large palpable tumors resolved within months of treatment with relatively modest radiation doses of 64–70Gy. The use of PSA-based failure as an endpoint, however, has made it clear that cure rates were muc...
More Photos » In June, The Times reported that a Philadelphia hospital gave the wrong radiation dose to more than 90 patients with prostate cancer — and then kept quiet about it. In 2005, a Florida hospital disclosed that 77 brain cancer patients had received 50 percent more radiation ...
One of the thorniest dilemmas posed by prostate cancer is whether, and when, to give radiation therapy—with its potential bad side effects—to men after surgery to remove the prostate gland. Now, three new randomizedclinical trials—the gold-standard type of study—and a statistical "meta-anal...
However, as it is known that the prostate and the seminal vesicles can move independently from these reference points this can be problematic because it could lead to off-target dose delivery, which in turn compromises tumour cure [34, 35]. In earlier times this problem was compensated by ...
The evolving role of systemic therapy in high risk prostate cancer: strategies for cure in the 21st century local treatment modalities with radical prostatectomy or radiation therapy constituted the mainstay of therapy in the majority of localized prostate cancer patien... Ulka,Vaishampayan,and,......
However these trials may have missed the benefit of adjuvant RT because a minority of men (9 to 17% of the study cohorts) were found to have adverse factors at prostatectomy which are associated with cancer progression and death from prostate cancer. ...
International Journal of Radiation Oncology - Biology - Physics (IJROBP), known in the field as the Red Journal, publishes original laboratory and clinical investigations related to radiation oncology, radiation biology, medical physics, and both education and health policy as it relates to the ...
This correlation makes prostate cancer a candidate for potentially achieving improved cure rates following local tumor sterilization by combining cisplatin with radiation therapy. The need and approaches to optimize delivery of cisplatin within tumor tissue is explored. Increasing cisplatin concentration to ...