Study unearths Britain's first speech therapists
On International Stammering Awareness Day (22 October), a new study reveals that Britain's first speech therapists emerged at least a century earlier than previously thought.
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Radiation therapy cuts low risk of recurrence in half for patients with 'good risk' breast cancer
A subset of patients with low-risk breast cancer is highly unlikely to see cancer return following breast conservation surgery but can lower that risk even further with radiationtherapy, finds a new long-term clinical trial ...
Oct 22, 2018
Local radiotherapy improves survival in metastatic prostate cancer with low disease burden
Radiotherapy to the prostate improves overall survival in men newly diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer who have a low metastatic disease burden but not in those with higher burden of disease, according to results from ...
Oct 22, 2018
Data supports interaction of pretreatment immune inflammatory state of patient outcomes following radiotherapy
Data from a validation study of NRG-RTOG 0521 suggeststhat, while there is no association between an elevated level of C-reactive protein (CRP) and disease-free survival (DFS); higher levels of pretreatment interleukin 10 ...
Oct 22, 2018
PROs indicate brachytherapy alone is the superior treatment
Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) from the NRG Oncology trial RTOG 0232 comparing a combined treatment of external beam therapy and brachytherapy (EBT+B) to transperineal interstitial permanent brachytherapy (B) alone indicate ...
Oct 22, 2018
