Patients undergoing external-beam radiation therapy (EBRT) for localized prostate cancer may be at an increased risk for secondary malignancy, according to a study from researchers in Canada, Italy ...
Patients undergoing external-beam radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer may be at an increased risk for secondary malignancy, according to a new study.
... one week, is as effective in keeping breast cancer from coming back as the standard external beam radiation treatment, according to a study presented September 22, 2008, at the American Society for ...
... sparing nearby healthy tissue.
External beam radiation therapy can be a very effective and minimally ... D., M.D., an associate professor of radiation oncology at Stanford University School of Medicine ...
... highly sophisticated system of delivering external-beam radiation. This system uses advanced computer optimized ... explained Gary Freedman, M.D., radiation oncologist at Fox Chase. "In this phase II ...
... explicitly reviewed medical records from 2,775 men treated with radical prostatectomy or external-beam radiation therapy. The researchers determined compliance with 29 quality-of-care disease-specific ...
Brachytherapy, also called seed implants, may be a more beneficial treatment than surgery or external beam radiation therapy for overweight or obese prostate cancer patients, according to a study ...
... 's 50th Annual Meeting in Boston. External beam radiation therapy, radiation seed implants (also called ... , M.D., lead author of the study and a radiation oncologist at Saints Medical Center in Lowell, ...
... allows us to control the radiation differently than other types of external beam radiation therapy, we were hopeful that ... Ritsuko Komaki, M.D., FASTRO, a radiation oncologist at M.D. Anderson Cancer ...
... prognostic significance in men treated with brachytherapy. Previous studies done with prostate cancer patients receiving external beam radiation therapy or radical prostatectomy had similar findings.
... prostatectomy than those who had seed implants, called brachytherapy, or external beam radiation. Sexual dysfunction was found in patients in all three treatment groups. Surgery patients were less ...
... prostate brachytherapy with or without hormone therapy, permanent prostate brachytherapy with external beam radiation, or a combination of those therapies. The 237 patients had been followed for an ...
... therapy (IGRT) over traditional external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) because IGRT corrects ... target displacements from the planned position before radiation delivery begins, so shifts may be corrected ...
... of the hands, head, and sometimes other parts of the body.
Stereotactic radiation is a specialized type of external beam radiation therapy that pinpoints high doses of radiation directly on a ...
... increase in the amount of radiation that reaches cancerous cells as compared to standard external beam radiation, which also radiates normal surrounding organs and tissue. The more radiation that can ...
