Radiation therapy is one of the most important modalities for the treatment of lung cancer. Current progress of radiation therapy in cooperation with the development of physics and biology is remarkable. The techniques of three-dimensional treatment planning and three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (...
aLung cancer radiation therapy(RT) is associated with complex geometrical uncertainties,such as respiratory motiion,differential baseline shifts between primary tumor and involved lymph nodes,and anatomical changes due to treatment respones.Generous safety margins required to account for these uncertainties ...
It is so also in locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer when combined with radiochemotherapy, although caution should be exercised when one attempts to combine high-dose radiation therapy with high-dose chemotherapy. Similarly, palliative radiation therapy is effective in elderly with non-small-...
breast cancer; radiation therapy; radiation carcinogenesis; lung cancer; late effects Abstract Background. Radiation, including radiation therapy (RT) for a variety of conditions, is known to be a lung carcinogen. Methods. Data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results program of the Nat...
Patients with locally advanced lung cancer, which has spread to only certain lymph nodes, usually undergo surgery to remove their tumors. Unfortunately, the cancer often comes back, so physicians frequently use radiation therapy to decrease patients' risk ofcancer recurrence. To see if this additiona...
Abbreviations: cGy = centigray; ES = extensive-stage; KQ = key question; RT = radiation therapy; SCLC = small cell lung cancer. What are the indications, appropriate dose-fractionation schedules, and timing of thoracic consolidation in patients with ES-SCLC? The role of thoracic RT in patient...
Proton-beam therapy is advantageous over conventional RT in reducing doses to the lung, heart, esophagus and spinal cord in treating lung cancer;[78] MRI is of potential interest for image guidance because it provides much better soft-tissue contrast than CT, has the ability for functional ...
Radiation therapy uses high-energy radiation to shrink tumors and kill cancer cells. X-rays, gamma rays, and charged particles are types of radiation used for cancer treatment. Radiation therapy kills cancer cells by damaging their DNA (the molecules inside cells that carry genetic information and...
Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) for Stage I Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC): Analysis Based on the New TNM Classification and Difference Due to HistologyStereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) for Stage I Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC): Analysis Based on the New TNM Classi...
The researchers examined the use of a tumor-specific mRNA-based vaccination combined with radiation in 2 tumor models, a low immunogenic Lewis lung cancer (LLC) tumor, and a high-immunogenic E.G7-OVA. The study evaluated the molecular mechanism that was induced by the combination the...