For prostate cancer treatment, treatment options with minimal side effects are desired. External beam radiation therapy (EBRT) is non-invasive, standard of care and delivered in either conventional fractionation over 8 weeks or with moderate hypo-fractionation over about 5 weeks. Recent advances in ...
Depending on where your cancer is, you may have other side effects. Talk to your doctor about: Organs near your tumor that might be affected Side effects you may have if these organs get damaged How to manage side effects Who to call if you have any problems after your treatment ...
With the use of magnetic resonance–guided daily adaptive SBRT, clinicians can customize radiation dosing to accommodate changes in prostate anatomy during treatment, which may also make SBRT safer and less toxic for patients. To determine whether this approach does reduce patient side effects, investi...
In the last years, the popularity of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) has increased significantly for the treatment of localized prostate cancer, based on the assumption of a lower α/β for the tumor than for normal tissues [1], [2]. Prostate SBRT is generally associated with low...
PURPOSE Radiation therapy has had a limited role in the treatment of many gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies, including primary liver tumors and local or lymph node recurrences, due to the particular radiosensitivity of abdominal organs such as the small bowel and liver. Stereotactic body radiation th...
Insights, research and perspectives from the leading edge of cancer treatment. News The Art of Radiotherapy: What Unusual Patients Have Taught Me Daily practice is guided by clinical evidence from well-conducted trials on significant samples representing the ...
The benefit of operating five beam-matched Elekta linacs not only enables OCSRI to move patients between the main campus and two satellite clinics in the event of downtime, but it also facilitates centralized treatment planning with Monaco. ...
In addition to BodyFIX®, the treatment couch can compensate for a certain degree of positional errors to better repro- duce the patient position at CT-Simulation. Mancosu8 et al. analyzed 2945 CBCTs from brain, lung, liver, pancreas, and prostate treatments and found the max- imum ...
overall design of Harmony,” says Stephan Dröge, Chief Medical Physicist at Lungenklinik Hemer, one of Germany’s largest lung cancer specialty centers. “Replacing the existing non-Elekta linac with Harmony also let us use onlyMOSAIQ®as the OIS andMonaco®as the treatment ...
IntroductionOne of the most common side effects from radiotherapy treatment of localized prostate cancer remains erectile dysfunction. Vessel-sparing radiotherapy has shown promising results on preserving erectile function when compared to historical series. In this dosimetric study, we aim to evaluate the...