Texas Oncology's radiation therapy, or radiotherapy, uses high-energy rays to damage or kill cancer cells and prevent them from growing and dividing.
Side effects from radiation therapy may include a swelling or heaviness in the breast, sunburn-like changes in the skin, and fatigue. Changes to the breast and skin usually go away in 6-12 months; however, in some women the breast may become smaller or firmer following radiation therapy...
CARTI’s Radiation Therapy Program is accredited by the: Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology 20 North Wacker Drive, Suite 2850Chicago, IL 60606-3182Phone: 312.704.5300Fax: 312.704.5304www.JRCERT.orgmail@jrcert.org The program’s current award is 8 years. General program...
Texas hospital purchases new radiation therapy system in-surgery treatment.Reports on the purchase of Proxima Therapeutics' GliaSite&trademark; radiation therapy system by Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas in Texas.EBSCO_bspHospital Materials Management...
“I had been grasping to find a way to fund my last year of schooling at Texas State University in which I am a part of the Radiation Therapy Program and the Elekta Radiation Therapy Scholarship gave me a light at the end of the tunnel,” says Kelly Thai. “I was going through a ro...
in excellent tumor control and good long-term outcomes, and it may allow us to give these patients long breaks from hormone therapy,” said Chad Tang, MD, lead author of the study and an associate professor of radiation oncology at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ...
The analysis of an international clinical trial including patients suffering from locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) showed that those treated with intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) had a significant decrease in ...Read more ...
November 12, 2024 – Low-dose radiation therapy (LDRT) has been shown to have a strong anti-inflammatory effect within the body and has been used to treat painful musculoskeletal disorders around the world for decades. Recently, there has been a surging interest in the United States to use ...
Two years later, we started an extra-cranial stereotactic radio-ablation or more appropriately a stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) program using the Brainlab Novalis image-guided system at The Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas. We hereby summarize our initial experience with this system ...
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