The management of head and neck cancer has evolved into a multidisciplinary approach in which patients are evaluated before treatment and decisions depend on prospective multi-institutional trials, as well as retrospective outcome studies. The choice of one or more modalities to use in a given case...
Rats treated with the human cells regained cognitive and motor functions that were lost after brain irradiation. Credit: Dr. Denis Soulet, Laval University, Quebec For patients with brain cancer, radiation is a powerful and potentially life-saving treatment, but it can also cause considerable and ...
Doctors often use radiation to targetcancer cells, but did you know radiation therapy can also provide relief from pain? "Radiation therapy is typically used in about 50% to 60% of allcancer patients, it's very, very common," says Dr. Holtzman. He says high-powered energy eradicates cancer...
Radiation therapy treatscancerby using high-energy waves to kill tumor cells. The goal is to destroy or damage the cancer without hurting too many healthy cells.It is given over a certain time period; it can be given around the time of surgery or chemotherapy. It can also be used to ease...
Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS)is a non-surgical radiation therapy that is typically used to treat cancerous tumors or other abnormalities in the brain. It can deliver precisely-targeted radiation in fewer high-dose treatments than traditional therapy, which can help preserve healthy tissue. ...
7,8 Another new technique is stereotactic body RT (SBRT), which allows the administration of very high doses of precision radiation in a small number of treatments (fractions).9 This is currently used for some primary lung and brain tumours, but also raises the tantalising question of whether...
The technology is especially vital for radiation treatments targeting certain cancers in difficult areas. "Proton radiotherapy is the gold standard for treating certain cancers but there are problems with targeting it, especially in small areas like in prostate cancer and brain cancer and now we have...
Healthy cell repopulation is desirable, but cancer cell repopulation can lead to treatment failure. Long breaks between radiation treatments can cause cancer cell repopulation. This is one reason why adhering to a planned radiotherapy fractionation schedule is so important. Reoxygenation. The presence of...
These common treatments bring some risk of side effects. Elaine K. HowleySept. 21, 2017 What Should I Know About Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer? It’s most often used to relieve symptoms in advanced cases of lung cancer. Kathleen HallJuly 11, 2017 ...
Aside from surgery,radiation therapyis one of the most effective treatments for people withbrain canceror other cancers that have spread to the brain. Because more people with brain cancer are now surviving longer, more people are experiencing long-term side effects from the treatment. ...