Wake Forest first to apply innovative brain cancer treatment
... said Tatter. "Unfortunately,previous attempts at brachytherapy were extremely inconvenient for patients, andhad a...nal device designed toaddress these issues, making brachytherapy more convenient and safe." The American Cancer Society projects 18,000 Americans will be dia...High-dose radiation treatment effective at fighting some cancers in children
... technique called intraoperative high-dose-rate brachytherapy (IO-HDRBT). Ten of the survivi... said Subir Nag, chief of brachytherapy and professor of clinical radiology at the Comprehensive Can...Radiation rids arteries of re-narrowing for up to five years
...illiams. Nonetheless, it appears that efficacy of brachytherapy was sustained over the period of five years. This was a pilot study designed to inspire larger studies, which it did, says Teirstein. These larger studies have shown significant short-term reductions in restenosis, but not all of them have shown ben...Women with advanced cervical cancer need varied therapy, study shows
...whole-body PET. Patients received a combination of brachytherapy (implanted radioactive devices), external-beam radiation therapy and chemotherapy. According to the pretreatment PET scan, 13 (28 percent) had tumor cells that had spread to lymph nodes in the upper chest. The three year survival estimates for the f...UCLA, RAND researchers help men with prostate cancer
...esearchers plan to develop a set of indicators for brachytherapy later. Measuring and assessing quality of care in medicine is a relatively new field, Litwin said. Until this study, little work had been done to quantify the quality of care in early-stage prostate cancer patients. "This study for the first time sh...Successful prostate surgery: It's quality of surgery not quantity that matters most
...ts a year have external beam radiotherapy, 25 have brachytherapy (where the radiation source is placed at the heart of the tumour) while 260 patients a year have radical prostectomies. Surgical outcome was therefore extremely important. He said that the variability of skill between surgeons could be translated not...Combining surgery with novel treatment may improve survival rates
...ffective, as have external beam radiation therapy, brachytherapy and systemic chemotherapy. Perry Shen, M.D., assistant professor of surgical oncology, was lead author of the study, which involved a retrospective review of 77 patients between 1991 and 2002 with peritoneal disease that had spread from colorectal ...Mayo Clinic researchers identify testing for patients for prostate treatments
...nted for prostate cancer. "In general, most brachytherapy patients do very well, but a few can have significant problems," said Dr. Wehle. Difficulties can include urine retention, the need to use a catheter to urinate, frequent urination and pain when urinating. Researchers assessed conditions such ...Black men less likely to be treated for aggressive prostate cancer, UMHS study finds
...cludes surgery, external beam radiation therapy or brachytherapy (in which high-dose radioactive seeds are implanted in the prostate). Black men with moderate grade cancers were 36 percent less likely than white men to receive treatment, and Hispanic men were 16 percent less likely than white men to receive treatm...Expert nurse paves the way with in-demand treatment option; Century-old brachytherapy rejuvenated
...vidualized approach," said Briola. "High-dose rate brachytherapy allows us to target the tumor directly by selectin...l patient. The treatment process for low-dose rate brachytherapy can be long and very uncomfortable for patients. High-dose rate brachytherapy gives them another cho...Patients receiving radioactive seed implant therapy have improved quality of life post-treatment
...eeting in San Francisco, CA. "Our findings reveal brachytherapy to be not only an effective treatment for prostate...ding beyond 4 years. The research team concluded brachytherapy treatment preserves urinary, sexual and rectal quality of life when patients implanted with I-125 ha...Partial breast radiation procedure may benefit cancer patients
...lso noted that these patients undergoing Mammosite brachytherapy appreciate the short treatment time of one week and have a very high overall satisfaction rates. In the current study, Dowlatshahi and colleagues describe the short-term outcomes of 112 women over age 40 treated with balloon brachytherapy. The women...New system translates improved diagnostic information to target radiation at tumors
...stem Lee and Zaider developed earlier for prostate brachytherapy improved local tumor control from 65 percent to 95 percent. The growing power of computer systems has made such treatment planning systems possible. In systems designed to deliver external beam radiation from as many as five to nine di...Advanced, precise radiation may boost limb-sparing therapy for sarcoma
...s, 83 percent of patients in a trial incorporating brachytherapy into the treatment plan had survived, according to...e surgery. All 12 patients received high-dose-rate brachytherapy after surgery. The researchers followed up to see how patients were doing five years later. In one p...Combining hormones with external, internal radiation helps high risk prostate cancer patients
...ing external beam radiation and hormone therapy to brachytherapy did indeed increase disease-free survival rates. Of the participating patients, 107 men were treated with external beam radiation therapy combined with seed implants. Another 69 patients received hormone therapy in addition to the seed implants and ...Study finds drug eluting stents as effective as vascular brachytherapy in preventing restenosis
...ed in-stent restenosis (ISR). At present, vascular brachytherapy (catheter-based delivery of intracoronary radiatio...ed at least as well as those treated with vascular brachytherapy (VB). Moreover, the patients who received the drug eluting stent had fewer cardiac events afterwards...Cultural and social factors influence prostate cancer treatment
...adical prostatectomy, external beam radiation, and brachytherapy have no evidence of clear mortality benefit over expectant treatment (i.e., observation). Moreover, the treatments can lead to serious side effects, including urinary incontinence, impotence, and bowel urgency. It is widely assumed that men make tre...