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 ...

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 ...

Radiotherapy (also called radiation therapy), a commonly used cancer treatment that uses high-energy radiation, can effectively eliminate or shrink various types of tumors. While radiotherapy benefits ...

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 ...

Phase III Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial of Donepezil for Treatment of Cognitive Impairment in Breast Cancer Survivors After Adjuvant Chemotherapy (WF-97116) Prostate-specific membrane ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The PROSPECT trial showed FOLFOX to be noninferior to pelvic chemoradiation before surgery with regard to DFS.

Pelvic radiation plus sensitizing chemotherapy with a fluoropyrimidine (chemoradiotherapy) before surgery is standard care for locally advanced rectal cancer in North America. Whether neoadjuvant ...

A large retrospective analysis of real-world data is shedding a bright light on the value of pelvic lymph node irradiation (PLNI) in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) undergoing ...

Some microorganisms in high-dose radiation environments are rich in melanin, which sparked our interest in melanin’s role in ...

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Radiation therapy, alone or in combination with surgery and chemotherapy, is commonly used for the treatment of many cancers. Although radiation therapy can usually be delivered without resulting in ...

Phase III Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial of Donepezil for Treatment of Cognitive Impairment in Breast Cancer Survivors After Adjuvant Chemotherapy (WF-97116) From 2005 to 2015, 350 men ...