Radiation therapy is a cornerstone of treatment for patients with brain tumors. Essential to providing quality care is recognizing and treating acute side effects from treatment. This chapter addresses potential side effects of fractionated brain irradiation and makes recommendations for mitigating these ...
Twenty-two patients had complications considered to be delayed side effects of radiotherapy. Two patients had visual deterioration developing 3 and 6 years after treatment; six had pituitary dysfunction; and 17 had varying degrees of parenchymal changes of the brain, occurring mostly in the temporal ...
Twenty-two patients had complications considered to be delayed side effects of radiotherapy. Two patients had visual deterioration developing 3 and 6 years after treatment; six had pituitary dysfunction; and 17 had varying degrees of parenchymal changes of the brain, occurring mostly in the temporal ...
This treatment can cause side effects, but they're different for everyone. The ones you have depend on the type of radiation you get, how much you get, the part of your body that gets treatment, and how healthy you are overall. There's no way to predict how radiation will affect you....
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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Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) is a radiation treatment that uses focused delivery of radiation in high doses to precise cancer locations in the brain, spine, neck, lungs, liver, etc. Side effects include, fatigue, nausea, headache, bleeding, pain, vert
Examinations of the carbohydrate metabolism with the hlep of the double charge of glucose after Staub-Traugott and by means of measuring of the blood sugar in a state of fast have been carried out on 3 groups of patients, who had been subjected to an intensive x-ray radiation. The radiatio...
Plaque is a build-up of certain proteins and diseased nerve cells that is often found in the brain of a person who has signs of Alzheimer's disease or other causes of dementia.Amyvid is supplied in multiple doses vials enclosed in a shielded container to minimize external radiation exposure....
(redirected fromSide effects of chemotherapy) Thesaurus Medical Encyclopedia che·mo·ther·a·py (kē′mō-thĕr′ə-pē, kĕm′ō-) n. 1.The treatment of cancer using specific chemical agents or drugs that are selectively destructive to malignant cells and tissues. ...