The first report from a phase II, multi-center clinical trial indicates that a newer, more aggressive form of radiation therapy—stereotactic radiation—can extend long-term survival for some patients with stage-IV cancers ...
Jan 31, 2019
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Researchers at the Del Monte Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rochester find that microglia—the brain's immune cells—can trigger cognitive deficits after radiation exposure and may be a key target for preventing ...
Jan 3, 2024
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Taking certain cancer-fighting drugs while undergoing radiation therapy may not increase survival for patients, but may, instead, increase side effects, according to a team of researchers. The drugs, however, may be beneficial ...
Oct 11, 2019
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Some side effects appear years after cancer treatment. That's the case for one side effect of radiotherapy for head and neck cancer, called osteoradionecrosis.
May 2, 2019
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Tumor laterality (left-side vs. right-side) does not impact overall survival in breast cancer patients treated with breast-conserving surgery and adjuvant external beam radiation therapy, according to a study published in ...
Oct 20, 2014
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A published study by researchers at the University of Cincinnati Cancer Center and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center shows that multiple beams and intervals in delivery during FLASH proton therapy treatment reduced ...
Aug 28, 2023
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A new study shows that repeated radiation therapy used to target tumors in the brain may not be as safe to healthy brain cells as previously assumed. The findings, which appear in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology, ...
May 18, 2016
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A new study, led by radiation oncology physicists at Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida, has displayed positive results using intracranial stereotactic radiosurgery, also known as SRS, for an MR-guided ...
Oct 2, 2023
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The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) and the American Urological Association (AUA) are pleased to announce the publication of the joint guideline on radiation therapy after prostatectomy for patients with and ...
May 7, 2013
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A research team led by Prof. Han Wei from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has recently found, for the first time, that GOLPH3, a protein located in the extranuclear ...
Feb 16, 2023
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