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Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) is an advanced type of radiation therapy used to treat cancer tumors. The goal of IMRT is to precisely target the tumor while avoiding or reducing damage to healthy tissues and providing a better quality of life for the patient by limiting the side ...
In one case, radioactive seeds intended for a man's cancerous prostate were instead implanted in the base of his penis. Another patient with stomach cancer was treated for prostate cancer. Fifty patients received radiation intended for someone else, including one brain cancer patient who received...
There are several different methods used to introduce radiation into the body. For breast cancer, the most common type used is external beam radiation. In this form of radiation therapy, the doctor aims a large machine, called a linear particle accelerator, that releases a beam of high-energy ...
What it's used forRadiation therapy is used to treat many types of cancer, including cancer of the lung, breast, prostate, testicles, and brain.When a tumor is going to be removed surgically, radiation can shrink it. This reduces the amount of normal tissue that needs to be removed near...
The median number of seeds used was 12 (range of 4 to 35), with a median activity of 3.82 mCi per seed (range of 3.31 to 4.83 mCi) and total activity of 46.91 mCi (range of 15.31 to 130.70 mCi). Local FFP was 100 %. There was 1 adjacent leptomeningeal recurrence, resulting in a...
Radiopharmaceuticals can be used therapeutically to treat cancer and as tracers for imaging tests to determine the location of a tumor. Strontium 89 (Metastron), samarium 153 (Quadramet), and radium 223 (Xofigo) are used to treat bone metastases, including those from breast and prostate cancers...
How the implant is put near the cancer depends on the size and location of the cancer. Internal radiation therapy is used for some cancers of the head, neck, thyroid, breast, female reproductive system, and prostate. Most people will have the radioactive capsule implanted by a surgeon while...
Interstitial brachytherapy was first used in the treatment of prostate cancer (PCa) in the early twentieth century and later in the curative treatment of cervical cancer (CCa) [2]; since then, significant technological advances, such as image-guided planning, have led to improved outcomes in the...
Vitamin C has often been referred to as a ‘Trojan horse’ that sneaks into cancer cells and kills them, and has been used effectively for decades to target cancer. Clinicians have been using this at high doses as part of both conventional and holistic treatment plans to improve efficacy. ...