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All patients completed before, during and after treatment, a questionnaire that rated the grade of pain, the pharmacological type of analgesic therapy and patient's performance status. For each patient a total score was calculated, from a minimum value of 0% to a maximum of 20%, then ...
Texas Oncology's radiation therapy, or radiotherapy, uses high-energy rays to damage or kill cancer cells and prevent them from growing and dividing.
Accurate characterization and differentiation of acute pain during radiation therapy may help facilitate symptom management for patients with oral cavity and oropharyngeal cancers. For patients with oral cancer (OC) and oropharyngeal cancer (OPC) treated with radiation therapy (RT), there ...
Image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT), featuring best-in-class clinical workflows and highly conformal treatments enabled by a unique ultra-fast multi-leaf collimator (MLC) for precise delivery of intensity modulated radiation treatments (IMRT) and stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) treatments....
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A single high dose of radiotherapy is as effective in relieving the pain from vertebral bone metastases as ten smaller treatments according to new research from the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting in Orlando. SHORT-COURSE ...
Insights, research and perspectives from the leading edge of cancer treatment. Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy SBRT for Prostate Cancer: Understanding the Evidence of the PACE-B Trial “Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for patients with low and favorable intermediate risk prostate cancer ...
Side effects can be severe, however, leading to pain, alterations in normal body functions (for example, urinary or salivary function), deterioration of quality of life, permanent injury and even death. Side effects can occur during or shortly after radiation treatment or in the months and ...