Sally Squires
As we mark 150 years since the birth of Marie Curie, we reflect on the global advances made in radiation oncology and the current status of radiation therapy (RT) research. Large-scale international RT clinical trials have been fundamental in driving evi
internal radiation is often given after a lumpectomy. To perform this treatment, the doctor implants radioactive ‘seeds’ or pellets into the body near the tumor and leaves them for a time so that the seeds
In the PI group, the number of implanted seeds was associated with the seed migration incidence. Neither the PI nor the PI + EBRT group showed any difference in the volume of the prostate receiving 100 % of the prescribed dose (V100 [%]) or the minimal dose received by 90 % of ...
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Around the prostate, there is a well-developed venous plexus. It is thought that seed migration occurs because seeds enter the veins and are transported by blood flow [12, 19]. The reported causes for seeds to enter the veins include direct implantation of seeds in the veins [19], an eff...
Also, empowering the cancer patient to be actively involved in his or her treatment decisions is being recognized as an important part of successful treatment. Radiotherapy is an involved and arduous journey for patients, and objectifying treatment success based solely on clinical outcomes may not ...
Although radiation therapy is widely adopted in the treatment of cervical cancer, the clinical success rate is unsatisfactory. This result is partly associated with the resistance to radiotherapy caused by hypoxic cells in the tumor microenvironment. In this study, the Bi2Se3-CS-RGD NSs exhibit a...
Brachytherapy, in which radioactive seeds are placed within the gland either permanently or temporarily, can also be used to deliver highly conformal radiation doses to the prostate with excellent outcomes [31]. For higher risk disease, EBRT is often combined with a brachytherapy boost, providing ...
The first approaches for exploiting this property involved electro-conductive or ferromagnetic components, such as needles or seeds of micrometric size, implanted inside the tumor tissue by surgery. MHT received a large impulse in recent years when colloidal dispersions of magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) ...