Twenty-two patients had complications considered to be delayed side effects of radiotherapy. Two patients had visual deterioration developing 3 and 6 years after treatment; six had pituitary dysfunction; and 17 had varying degrees of parenchymal changes of the brain, occurring mostly in the temporal ...
Radiation therapy is not one-size-fits-all. The volume, dose, type and duration of radiation are tailored to fit each person and their specific tumor. A treatment plan is designed that considers the size, location and type of your brain tumor. Radiation therapy can be used to treat brain ...
Brain injury is another severe and common side effect of IR; as many as 50–90% of patients receiving radiotherapy for brain tumors experience disabling cognitive impairment [90]. Ferroptosis has been proposed as one mechanism of neuron injury in response to irradiation and has been observed in ...
their clinical utility for radiotherapy has been less extensively explored. However, brain tumor radiotherapy is well-suited to benefit from both solid and
However, with a greater reliance on radiation-based methods of treatment, the incidence of radiation-induced side effects, specifically radiation necrosis, is also increasing. As a disease entity in its own right, one of the most challenging aspects of radiation necrosis lies in its diagnosis. ...
most effective method for treating deadly brain tumors called glioblastomas. But, although the targeting technology has been refined, beams of radiation still must pass through healthy brain tissue to reach the tumor, and patients can only tolerate small amounts before developing serious side effects...
Little is known about side effects of irradiation. A dose-response loss of body and brain weight has been reported three weeks following single or fractionated irradiation which persists for at least 12 months but the cause of this change is not known [17,22–25]. One possible reason is ...
Radiation Therapyor Radiotherapy is the delivery of high intensity X-rays, generally used in the treatment of cancers and brain disorders. There are many ways to haveradiation therapy, but they all work in a similar way. Carefully controlled high-energyX-rayskill or damagecancercells. This stops...
Targeted drugs have augmented the cancer treatment armamentarium. Based on the molecular specificity, it was initially believed that these drugs had significantly less side effects. However, currently it is accepted that all of these agents have their sp
The long-term side effects of radiation therapy for benign brain tumors in adults Radiation therapy plays an integral part in managing intracranial tumors. While the risk:benefit ratio is considered acceptable for treating malignant tumo... O Al-Mefty,JE Kersh,A Routh,... - 《Journal of ...