The advent of image-guided or CT-based treatment planning, such as 3D-conformal or intensity modulated radiation therapy has allowed safe delivery of high- dose radiation therapy in men with prostate cancer with an acceptable rate of side effects and complications. External-beam radiation therapy ...
Policymakers and clinicians have highlighted the need for comparative studies of prostate cancer treatments. However, there is little evidence comparing IMRT to conventional radiation therapy. Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy, or 3D-CRT, uses computers and special imaging techniques such as CT...
"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...
June 10, 2010 (San Francisco, California) — Nearly 90% of men who undergo radiation therapy (RT) for prostate cancer will eventually develop anejaculation, researchers reported here at the American Urological Association (AUA) 2010 Annual Scientific Meeting. "Patients frequently present to us after...
In regards to radiation therapy, what we've found is that men may not suffer the side effects immediately. But the effects of radiation therapy, we found, are somewhat more delayed.
Surgery to remove the prostate gland (called radical prostatectomy) Radiation therapy – sometimes combined with androgen deprivation therapy, which shuts off male hormones that fuel cancer cells Potential Side Effects of Prostate Cancer Treatment Both surgery and radiation prostate cancer treatments are as...
Prostate cancer patients who receive hormone treatments before undergoing three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT) do not have increased side effects compared with those not receiving hormone therapy before radiation, according to a new study in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology...
Comparison of radiation side-effects in prostate cancer. By - Wolfgang Lilleby, Dag Rune Olsen, Sophie D Fossdoi:10.1016/S0140-6736(05)75969-9Wolfgang LillebyDag Rune OlsenS D Foss aThe LancetDearnaley DP, Khoo VS, Norman AR, Meyer L, Nanum A, et al. Comparison of radiation side-...
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...
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