With darting red and green beams above me and large mechanical eyes and grids humming and moving around me, I feel as though I’m in a 1950s sci-fi movie.

Consider laparoscopic ovarian transposition laparoscopically for abdominal and pelvic malignancies, when feasible, before the onset of radiation treatments to preserve ovarian function.

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

Whole-pelvic radiation conferred a 67% lower risk of all-cause mortality among patients younger than 65 with unfavorable-risk prostate cancer.

CHICAGO — Most patients with intermediate-risk rectal cancer can undergo curative-intent treatment without the need for pelvic radiation, according to study results presented during a press ...

Unusual use of radiation therapy for pelvic pain 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 ...

Patients risk pelvic fractures, and the radiation can cause additional cancers. Yet radiation treatment, the study found, did not improve outcomes.

Unfortunately, the exact mechanisms by which radiation elicits cancer cell death can cause similar damage in nearby healthy cells, leading to significant toxicities in some cases. Many malignancies ...

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Radiation is very focused, but you hit more than the tumor.” In the short term, patients who receive pelvic radiation can experience diarrhea and other acute toxicities.

Radiation enteritis is inflammation of the intestines that may occur in people undergoing radiation therapy. It is more common in people receiving radiotherapy on the abdomen, rectum, and pelvis.