Quality of life meets cure for prostate cancer treatment
Remember the game Operation? You need to carefully remove the body part without nicking the sides or the buzzer will sound.
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Remember the game Operation? You need to carefully remove the body part without nicking the sides or the buzzer will sound.
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Proton therapy, a type of external beam radiation therapy, is a safe and effective treatment for prostate cancer, according to two new studies published in the January issue of the International Journal of Radiation OncologyBiologyPhysics ...
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More doesn't necessarily mean better—including in cancer treatment.
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Cancer irradiation with hadron beams, a method to which CERN contributed by propelling carbon ion therapy of radioresistant tumors into the medical world some thirty years ago, has treated more than 300,000 patients to date. ...
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A higher dose of radiation (74 Gy) does not improve overall survival for non-small cell lung cancer that has spread to the lymph nodes, compared to the standard radiation dose (60 Gy), according to an interim analysis of ...
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