When my brother’s Glioma Grade II brain tumor was turned into Glioblastoma Multiforme (Grade IV) in July 2013, he was advised to go for radiation ...
Radiation Therapy Options for Management of the Brain Tumor PatientSharon A. Lamb RNCritical Care Nursing Clinics of North America
For example, Aetna[1] considers proton therapy experimental for certain types of cancer, such as esophageal cancer. For patients not covered by health insurance, radiation therapy can cost $10,000-$50,000 or more, depending on the type of cancer, number of treatments needed and especially the...
Minibeam radiation therapy (MBRT) is an innovative synchrotron radiotherapy technique able to shift the normal tissue complication probability curves to significantly higher doses. However, its exploration was hindered due to the limited and expensive beamtime at synchrotrons. The aim of this work was...
Pencil-beam scanning proton therapy for anal cancer: a dosimetric comparison with intensity-modulated radiotherapy Background. Concurrent chemoradiotherapy cures most patients with at the cost of significant treatment-related toxicities. Intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) reduces side effects compared to ...
Radiation necrosis (RN) usually occurs within 3 years after radiation therapy and is often indistinguishable from recurrent tumor because it manifests as an enhancing mass lesion with varying degrees of surrounding edema and progressive enhancement on serial magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)4,5. Thus,...
Late side effects from radiation therapy take months and sometimes years to show up and usually don’t go away. But not everyone will have them. These problems happen when radiation damages your body. For example, scar tissue can affect the way your lungs or your heart works. Bladder, bowel...
Commentary on stereotactic radiosurgery plus whole-brain radiation therapy vs stereotactic radiosurgery alone for treatment of metastases: A randomized con... To determine whether adding 2 years of androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) improved outcome for patients electively treated with ADT before and duri...
Proton minibeam radiation therapy (pMBRT) is a novel strategy which has already shown a remarkable reduction in neurotoxicity as to compared with standard proton therapy. Here we report on the first evaluation of tumor control effectiveness in glioma bearing rats with highly spatially modulated proton...
bladder cancer; radiation therapy; radiosensitivity; cancer stem cells; dose-fractionation1. Introduction Bladder cancer is the sixth most commonly diagnosed cancer in men worldwide [1,2,3]. It usually affects the older population with an average age at diagnosis of 73 years [1,2,3]. Although...