MPRI opens its doors to cancer patients
...we expect many more in the months to come." Proton radiotherapy is an alternative to conventional X-ray radiation ...d and Drug Administration. MPRI is the only proton radiotherapy facility in the Midwest and one of only 15 such facilities in the world. Other American facilities a...Radiotherapy improves survival after breast-conserving surgery
The omission of radiotherapy after breast-conserving surgery for early-stage br...cer who have breast-conserving surgery followed by radiotherapy have similar survival rates as women who have a mastectomy, and those women are also spared the disf...Young breast cancer patients who chose lumpectomies need indefinite follow-up
...tumours (under 25mm) and had followed a comparable radiotherapy protocol. "What we found in the trial of 179 pati...ed to improve the accuracy of radiotherapy, a good radiotherapy boost technique and the addition of tamoxifen in patients with hormone-responsive tumours. The Europ...Dose of radiation therapy directed to the prostate affects treatment outcome
...989 and July 2000. The patients were treated with radiotherapy either to the prostate alone or with additional treatment to part or all of the pelvis. "Radiation dose to the prostate was the most significant determinant of cancer control for these high-risk prostate cancer patients," said Jacob. "The data we p...Anaemia treatment could worsen cancer prognosis
...epoetin beta could improve the outcome of curative radiotherapy among patients with head and neck cancer. In a multicentre trial among 351 patients from Austria, Germany, France, and Switzerland, individuals were given either epoetin beta (to treat anaemia) or placebo around two weeks before radiotherapy. Althou...Cancer patients find more pain relief when treatment guidelines are followed
...d fees for anesthesiology and surgical procedures, radiotherapy and physical therapy. After analysis, the guideline-based therapy cost an estimated $1.18 per member of a health-care organization per month; oncology-based care was 95 cents per member per month, and the non-specialty "usual care" cost 65 cents per ...Small changes in hospital practice bring significant benefits to rectal cancer patients
...s well than those with colon cancer. Trials using radiotherapy established that the local recurrence rate could be halved from 30% to 15%, but also highlighted the fact that about 50% of patients were being operated upon by surgeons doing less than one rectal cancer operation a year. He said: "Some centres in S...More children survive cancer but the after-effects present a challenge to doctors
...ombination of therapies: 5% had surgery alone, 55% radiotherapy and 85% chemotherapy. However these treatments ha...already we have greatly reduced the use of cranial radiotherapy in children with leukaemia and doctors use smaller doses of anthracyclines."...Health of independent clinical trials in danger, scientist warns
...ly under threat', said Prof. Meunier. Surgery and radiotherapy are also important in curing cancer, he said, and both techniques can benefit from the further improvement that is only possible through publicly funded clinical trials....No need to change post-operative treatment for lung cancer, says clinical scientist
...herapy, said Professor Thatcher, but with adjuvant radiotherapy (which was included in the IALT study) there was a... it should have been. Secondly more post-operative radiotherapy was given to patients in the control arm, possibly reducing the control survival disproportionately"...New test can identify patients who may suffer serious late toxicity from radiotherapy
...s with breast cancer who received tamoxifen during radiotherapy showed an increased proportion of subcutaneous fibrosis (tissue scarring) compared to those who did not have tamoxifen or who had it later. Now, a new multi-centre Phase III study will compare tamoxifen versus an aromatase inhibitor in breast cancer...Faster radiotherapy more effective in head and neck cancer, trial shows
The world's largest trial in accelerated radiotherapy for head and neck cancer the DAHANCA trial prove... that results from DAHANCA meant that the standard radiotherapy treatment for head and neck cancer had now changed. In the trial, 1476 head and neck cancer patients...Accelerated radiotherapy more effective for treating head and neck cancer
...ET provides strong evidence that the shortening of radiotherapy treatment time has definitive benefits for people ...bout the optimum treatment time for patients given radiotherapy for head and neck cancer. Jens Overgaard from Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark, and colleagues in...Delaying chemotherapy could be best option for certain type of non-hodgkin lymphoma
...motherapy delayed until disease progression. Local radiotherapy was given to both groups if lymph nodes showed evidence of disease. The Average follow-up of patients was 16 years, and patients randomised to a 'wait and see' policy required chemotherapy after an average of two and a half years. There was no differ...Physics and medicine in San Diego
...und scans (using sound waves) and various types of radiotherapy are among the physics-based devices that help doct...ctly positioning a patient is an important part of radiotherapy with externally incident radiation beams. Accuracy and flexibility are important considerations. C...Other highlights in the November 6 issue of JNCI
...s with NPC 6 to 8 weeks after their treatment with radiotherapy was completed. They found that patients with higher levels of EBV DNA after treatment appeared to have poorer outcomes. In contrast, patients who had lower levels of EBV DNA after treatment appeared to have a much better chance at survival....American Thoracic Society news tips for November (first issue)
...r 40 years. Because surgical resection or radical radiotherapy can cure only 10 percent of all patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), 90 percent will either be first diagnosed with or develop advanced disease from which they will ultimately die. Virtually no evidence exists that chemotherapy can cure...High-dose radiotherapy could reduce cognitive function for people with low-grade brain tumours
...reatment for gliomas (a type of brain tumour) with radiotherapy are questionable-such treatment can cause substant...lleagues aimed to identify the specific effects of radiotherapy on objective and self-reported cognitive function, and on cognitive deterioration over time, in pati...Predicting who is most likely to quit smoking
...revious 12 months and were less likely to have had radiotherapy or surgery. "The results were surprising and somewhat disappointing," said Dr Olver. "However, we gained some valuable information that will help us develop new programmes to help people quit. Our findings stress the need to offer different strateg...Men with prostate cancer want screening despite doubts over effectiveness of treatment
...ly to undergo biopsy. Rates of radical surgery and radiotherapy were also substantially higher. However, over 11 years of follow up, prostate cancer death rates were similar in the two areas. Longer follow up may be necessary to fully assess the outcome of this natural experiment, say the authors. Meanwhile, ongo...