Conference|Interdisciplinary Prostate Cancer Congress and Other Genitourinary Malignancies Scott T. Tagawa, MD, MS, FACP, FASCO, highlights a key difference between oral androgen receptor inhibitor drugs and therapeutic radionuclides for the treatment of prostate cancer. This...
Radiation therapy is a common component of breast cancer treatment for patients. The high-powered beams of intense energy kill cancer cells and reduce the risk of the cancer recurring. Dr. Laura Vallow, chair of the Radiation Oncology Department at Mayo Clinic in Florida, explains how innovation ...
into all steps of the radiation therapy process. this lecture will describe how mri scans are being used throughout the radiation therapy process, as well as compare and contrast the equipment and images used for radiation therapy and diagnostic purposes. 1)discuss the typical radiation oncology ...
Video Transcript RAJ LAUNGANI Well, when you talk about complications of prostate cancer, prostate cancer in and of itself does not have complications. When disease is progressed or when it's advanced, you can suffer some of the side effects of advanced disease, like blood in the urine or ...
Radiation treatment for prostate cancer can also cause impotence and urinary incontinence, but whether these occur at equal or lesser frequency than for surgery remains unknown. Play Video Rates of these side effects can vary based on the expertise of the surgeon or radiologist. “Treatment specialis...
Tang’s team is the primary analysis of the prostate basket, which enrolled 87 participants who were on intermittent hormone therapy for prostate cancer. These patients were randomized to receive hormone therapy either with (n=43) or without (n=44) local therapy. Options for local ...
absolute dose would be the first step in a potential paradigm shift in how radiotherapy delivery is visualized and verified. Further, therapeutic X-rays are the most common treatment modality for cancer, with over 50% of all patients receiving it, it is estimated that approximately 11 million ...
Stay current with comprehensive updates throughout that include a new chapter on survivorship issues, and additional video clips on treatments such as prostate and penile cancer brachytherapy. Improve outcomes by providing the most effective treatment for each patient with expanded coverage of new modalit...
Pelvic regional control with 25Gy in 5 fractions in SBRT for high risk prostate cancer: Pooled prospective outcomes from the SHARP consortium Vedang Murthy, Indranil Mallick, Priyamvada Maitre, Gargee Mulye, ... Amar U KishanIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 2 January 20...
Pancreatic cancer has one of the lowest overall survival rates of any cancer 1 . Currently, the standard of care for inoperable pancreatic cancer involves the use of non-ablative radiation doses, since the high doses required to completely eradicate tumors are deemed unsafe using conventional CT-...