UTA engineer developing more precise lung cancer imaging, radiation results
Lung cancer patients know that precise medical imaging can help a surgeon eradicate tumors and preserve healthy tissue.
Dec 24, 2015
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Lung cancer patients know that precise medical imaging can help a surgeon eradicate tumors and preserve healthy tissue.
Dec 24, 2015
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Radiotherapy using protons can deliver more accurate treatment to a tumour while reducing the dose to surrounding tissue. However, in mobile organs such as the lung, precise targeting of the dose is difficult. Now researchers ...
Apr 26, 2015
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Patients treated with definitive concurrent chemotherapy and radiation therapy (CCRT) for stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have longer overall survival when treated by highly experienced facilities, whether or ...
Mar 11, 2015
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Researchers from Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine have developed a technology that improves the detection of tumors during radiation therapy for early-stage lung cancer.
Nov 14, 2014
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Patients who received post-operative radiation therapy (PORT), radiation therapy after surgery, lived an average of four months longer when compared to the patients who had the same disease site, tumor histology and treatment ...
Oct 30, 2014
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Western-led research has discovered that timing, in combination with aggression, are possible keys to long-term survival for patients with limited metastatic lung cancer.
Oct 24, 2014
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There were only modest acute changes in cardiac biomarkers and electrocardiograms and there were no clinically significant cardiac events in patients with high-dose radiation exposure to the heart following thoracic radiation ...
Sep 24, 2014
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A new era of lung cancer therapy is close to dawning, using drugs that can prevent tumour cells from evading the immune system, experts have said at the 4th European Lung Cancer Congress.
Mar 26, 2014
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Researchers at Norris Cotton Cancer Center have found an antibody that may be used in future treatments for recurrent small-cell lung cancer, which currently has no effective therapy.
Mar 4, 2014
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Survival among people with lung cancer has been better for women than men, and the findings of a recent study indicate that female hormones may be a factor in this difference. The combination of estrogen plus progesterone ...
Feb 26, 2014
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