Tumour study could help improve radiotherapy
Cancer patients could benefit from new insight into how tumours respond to radiotherapy, an Edinburgh study suggests.
Jun 20, 2016
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Cancer patients could benefit from new insight into how tumours respond to radiotherapy, an Edinburgh study suggests.
Jun 20, 2016
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Having radiotherapy once a day for six and a half weeks or twice a day for three weeks—when combined with chemotherapy—is equally good at treating small cell lung cancer that hasn't spread.
Jun 4, 2016
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GIVING chemotherapy after radiotherapy delays further growth of a rare type of brain tumour, increasing the number of patients alive at five years from 44 per cent to 56 per cent.
Jun 3, 2016
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Researchers at the University of Birmingham working with clinical teams at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust have successfully shown for the first time that breast cancer patients can be trained to achieve ...
May 11, 2016
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One targeted dose of radiotherapy given during surgery to remove early stage breast cancer could save millions of travel miles, enough CO2 emissions for a 100 hectare forest, and free up thousands of hours of women's time, ...
May 9, 2016
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A longitudinal Nordic study, comparing the results of hormone (antiandrogen) therapy with or without the addition of local radiotherapy, shows that a combination of treatments halves the risk of death from prostate cancer ...
May 9, 2016
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Safer precision radiotherapies that will be able to cure more cancers with fewer side-effects will be available within five years under ambitious new plans for research and treatment at the UCL Cancer Institute and University ...
Apr 22, 2016
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Among females who received radiotherapy to the chest as part of treatment for a childhood cancer, those who had either of two specific genetic variants were at significantly higher risk of developing breast cancer later in ...
Apr 19, 2016
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The demand for radiotherapy across all European countries will increase by an average of 16% between 2012 and 2025, with the highest expected increase being for prostate cancer cases (24%), according to a new study published ...
Apr 18, 2016
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Radiotherapy to the whole breast is standard treatment after breast-conserving surgery for women with early breast cancer, even those who have a low risk of the disease returning in the breast (local relapse). However, whole ...
Mar 9, 2016
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