The goal of this book chapter is to discuss the role of radiation therapy in the treatment of patients with brain metastases. New techniques permit the delivery of irradiation with a high precision on the tumor, sparing the normal brain tissue. Therefore, the tumor control increased significantly...
Radiation therapy plays an integral part in managing intracranial tumors. While the risk:benefit ratio is considered acceptable for treating malignant tumors, risks of long-term complications of radiotherapy need thorough assessment in adults treated for benign tumors. Many previously reported delayed compl...
Radiation therapy plays an integral part in managing intracranial tumors. While the risk:benefit ratio is considered acceptable for treating malignant tumors, risks of long-term complications of radiotherapy need thorough assessment in adults treated for benign tumors. Many previously reported delayed compl...
While advances have been made in recent years in cranial radiotherapy protocols and technology that allow clinicians to better target tumors and limit the area of the brain exposed to radiation, the results of the study show that the brain remains at significant risk to damage during therapy. The...
Radiation therapyis one of the main treatment approaches for primary and secondarymalignanciesof the centralnervous system(CNS). Prophylactic radiation to the brain or craniospinal axis is also performed in cancers with propensity to spread into the neuraxis, in order to prevent development of future...
What Are the Late Side Effects From Radiation Therapy? 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 ...
What are the Side Effects of Stereotactic Radiation Therapy? The side effects that patient’s may experience depend upon which area of your brain has been treated, along with the amount of radiotherapy given during each dose. In most cases, patients will experience only some common, short-term...
Lung cancer often metastasizes to the brain. Historically, brain metastases have been treated with whole-brain radiation therapy. However, whole-brain radiation is associated with cognitive side-effects and studies of non-small cell lung cancer patients have shown that a more targeted form of radiat...
effective in treating the cancer even as it caused fewer side effects. Overall survival at one year for the proton therapy group was 83 percent as against 81 percent for the X-ray radiation therapy group. This difference tipped slightly in favor of proton therapy but was not statistically ...
Around 50% of patients with solid malignant tumours receive radiation therapy with curative or palliative intent at some point in the course of their disease. Early and late side effects limit radiation dose and might affect the long-term health-related quality of life of the patient. The classi...