rectal cancerThough resection has been the mainstay of treatment for nonmetastatic rectal cancer over the past century, radiation has become an increasingly integral component of care for locally advanced disease. Today, two predominant radiotherapy approaches—hyperfractionated chemoradiotherapy and "short-...
Whether radiotherapy treatment is used for acne, peptic ulcers, scalp ringworm or cancer, universally we see an elevated risk of cancer that lasts for the remainder of the patient’s life.34For example, a 36-year-old male patient who was treated with radiotherapy and chemotherapy for Hodgkin’...
The role of radiation therapy in the management of lung cancer was reviewed at a workshop held in Cambridge, England, in June 1984. It was concluded that there was a continuing role for radiation therapy in the primary management of small cell lung cancer, including the loco-regional treatment...
Science (2020) 27:82 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12929-020-00676-5 REVIEW Open Access Precision radiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer Wen-Chi Yang1,2, Feng-Ming Hsu1,2*† and Pan-Chyr Yang2,3*† Abstract Precision medicine is becoming the standard of care in anti-cancer ...
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Radiotherapy for cancer is usually subject to a schedule based on various days and weeks depending on the condition. Every part of the treatment process is referred to as simply ‘fraction’, and these fractions are usually given once in twenty four hours from Monday to Friday with weekends usu...
Radiotherapy is an important modality used for the treatment of lung cancer. Seventy﹕even percent of all patients with lung cancer have an evidence‐based indication for radiotherapy, although it is often underutilized. Radiotherapy can be used as curative or palliative treatment across all stages ...
In recent years, cancer immunotherapy has been considered as one of the most successful approaches in oncologic therapy, particularly with regard to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in treating solid tumors. For some certain types of tumors such as non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), ICIs can...
While new strategies for the treatment of invasive breast cancer (BC) are emerging, radiotherapy (RT) modalities are still under debate. The French expert review board of Nice-Saint-Paul de Vence was asked firstly to conduct a qualitative evidence-based systematic review and then to establish cli...
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