In Japan, BNCT has been approved for the treatment of unresectable advanced or recurrent head and neck tumours, explains Koji Ono, director of the Kansai BNCT Medical Center at Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University. Standard treatments, such as chemotherapy, other radiotherapies or targeted phar...
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For many of these cancers the initial treatment will be surgical resection. In nearly half of these cases, chemotherapy will be given in addition in an effort to destroy deposits of tumor cells that have already spread to sites distant from the original c...
Alpha DaRT enables a highly potent and conformal radiation treatment for solid cancer tumors. Directly inserted into the tumor, the Alpha DaRT sources release a high-energy dose over a range of several millimeters enabling a focal alpha-radiation treatment that spares the surrounding healthy tissue....
Ionizing radiation acoustic imaging (iRAI) allows online monitoring of radiation’s interactions with tissues during radiation therapy, providing real-time, adaptive feedback for cancer treatments. We describe an iRAI volumetric imaging system that enables mapping of the three-dimensional (3D) radiation ...
do, like going to work or spending time with family and friends.The fatigue is out of proportion to your activity level.It also can seem different from day to day, which makes it hard to plan around it. It can even change how well you're able to follow your cancer treatment plan. ...
The cancer’s location in the body. How close the cancer is to normal tissues that are sensitive to radiation. How far into the body the radiation needs to travel. The patient’s general health and medical history. Whether the patient will have other types of cancer treatment. ...
Other Cancer Treatments Your doctor may recommend other options as part of your treatment plan, including: Targeted therapy, in which drugs work against specific parts of cancer cells to keep them from growing or spreading. Immunotherapy, also called biologic therapy, which gets the body’s immune...
number oftreatment sessionsorfractions. Delivering a small fraction of the total dose allows time for normal cells to repair themselves between treatments, thereby reducingside effects. The total number oftreatment sessionsthat a patient will need is tailored to the treatment requirements of thecancer...
Radiation Treatments Need to Take Breast Size Into Account: Study More By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter HealthDay THURSDAY, March 5, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Breast size should be considered when positioning a breast cancer patient during radiation therapy, researchers say. Ev...