Radiation therapy could be an underused tool to reduce pelvic relapse risk for patients with locally advanced, muscle-invasive bladder cancer, according to results of a new phase III randomized trial.

Show More David D. Yang, MD, Paul L. Nguyen, MD, and Anthony V. D'Amico, MD, PhD, Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School ...

Rates of overall survival, prostate cancer-specific death, and distant metastasis were similar in patients who received prophylactic whole pelvic radiotherapy compared to those who received ...

Stage 2 vaginal cancer involves spread beyond the vaginal wall but not to the pelvic sidewall, with symptoms like abnormal ...

Palliative radiotherapy is a standard option for bleeding or painful pelvic tumors. The conventional dosage is 20 Gy in five fractions or 30 Gy in 10 fractions. A dose of 25 Gy in five fractions ...

A patient who will be referred to as Ms. L in this case study was 34 years old when she presented to the emergency department in January 2012 with severe pain in the right lower quadrant that radiated ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Locoregional recurrence after cystectomy for advanced bladder cancer is common and rarely salvageable. Now new findings show that many of those recurrences may be prevented with ...

Whole-pelvic radiation conferred a 67% lower risk of all-cause mortality among patients younger than 65 with unfavorable-risk prostate cancer. Treatment with whole-pelvic radiation therapy (WPRT) may ...

Compared with patients who undergo surgery alone for abdominal or pelvic cancers, those who receive radiation and chemotherapy are at elevated risk for secondary sarcomas. Patients who receive ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers have found that positioning pelvic cancer patients on their stomachs rather than their backs is a better method for ...

SAN FRANCISCO, September 29, 2025 — Radiation therapy could be an underused tool to reduce pelvic relapse risk for patients with locally advanced, muscle-invasive bladder cancer, according to results ...

A large retrospective analysis of approximately 30,000 patients with prostate cancer demonstrated that whole pelvis radiation therapy may improve survival in men with particular risk factors compared ...