Neutron radiation has better cure rate in prostate cancer patients. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)Anstett, Patricia
1、【医学英文课件】 Understanding Radiation TherapyIntroduction to Radiation OncologyRadiation therapy, or radiotherapy, is the use of various forms of radiation to safely and effectively treat cancer and other diseases.Radiation therapy has been an effective tool for treating cancer for more than 100 ...
FDA approved Novartis Pluvicto as the first targeted radioligand therapy for the treatment of progressive, PSMA positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer In April 2022, Elekta and GE Healthcare collaborated to increase access to precision radiation therapy solutions. This would enable the ...
This represents more than one in three people who will develop cancer during their lifetimes. Radiation will be used to treat approximately 66,000 new cancer patients per year of whom 33,000 will be treated with an attempt to cure the disease. The radiation therapy process is complex and ...
"No other therapy besides salvage external beam radiotherapy has been shown to cure these patients," she adds. In 2009, an estimated 192,000 American men will have newly diagnosedprostate cancer. Approximately one-third (about 64,000 men) will choose radical prostatectomy as their primary treatmen...
Intra-operative radiation therapy is usually a component of a multi-disciplinary treatment approach for localized cancers that can not be completely removed or that have a high risk of recurring in nearby tissues. For patients with colorectal cancer, IORT has been associated with improved local ...
Local therapies may benefit patients with oligometastatic cancer. However, there were limited data about pancreatic cancer. Here, we compared the efficacy and safety of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) to the primary tumor and all oligometastases with SBRT to the primary tumor alone in pat...
Zelefsky MJ, Chan H, Hunt M, Yamada Y, Shippy AM, Amols H: Long-term outcome of high dose intensity modulated radiation therapy for patients with clinically localized prostate cancer. J Urol 2006, 176: 1415-1419. 10.1016/j.juro.2006.06.002 Article PubMed Google Scholar van Tol-Geerdink...
Researchers Mary Hitt (left) and Quinn Storozynsky found that using a cancer-targeting virus therapy at the same time as radiation gives more benefit than either treatment on its own for mice with invasive brain cancer—a discovery that could point the way to potential future combination therapie...
Cancer - Treatment, Chemotherapy, Radiation: Surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy alone or in combination are the most-common methods used to treat cancer. Specific treatment varies, depending on the kind of cancer, the extent of the disease, its