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Adding proton therapy 'boost' to X-ray radiation therapy reduces prostate cancer recurrences
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Men who receive a "boost" of proton therapy after receiving a standard course of X-ray radiation therapy have fewer recurrences of their prostate cancer compared to men who did not receive the extra dose of proton radiation, ...
Proton therapy is well-tolerated in prostate cancer patients
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Proton beam therapy can be safely delivered to men with prostate cancer and has minimal urinary and rectal side effects, according to a study presented November 2, 2009, at the American Society for Radiation Oncology's 51st ...
Proton therapy and concurrent chemotherapy may reduce bone marrow toxicity in advanced lung cancer
Nov 13, 2008 |
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Patients treated for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer who receive chemotherapy and proton beam therapy have fewer instances of bone marrow toxicity than patients who receive the standard treatment of intensity-modulated ...
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Proton therapy lowers chance of later cancers
Sep 22, 2008 |
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Patients who are treated with proton therapy (a specialized type of external beam radiation therapy using protons rather than X-rays to treat cancer) decreases the risk of patients developing a secondary cancer by two-fold, ...
Radiation therapy combo cures prostate cancer long-term
Jan 04, 2007 |
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Seventy-four percent of men treated with a combination of radiation seed implants and external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer are cured of their disease 15 years following their treatment, according to a study ...
Rare pancreatic cancer patients may live longer when treated with radiation therapy
Nov 20, 2009 |
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Radiation therapy is effective in achieving local control and palliation in patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (PNTs), despite such tumors being commonly considered resistant to radiation therapy, according to ...
St. Jude and UF Proton Therapy Institute to begin proton therapy clinical trial
Nov 09, 2009 |
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute have formed a collaboration to provide proton therapy for St. Jude patients. The announcement follows the approval of the first ...
Radiation after surgery reduces chance of melanoma returning
Nov 02, 2009 |
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High-risk melanoma patients who are treated with radiation after surgery have a significantly lower risk of their cancer returning to the lymph nodes (19 percent), compared to those patients who do not have radiation therapy ...
Undetectable PSA after radiation is possible and predicts good patient outcomes
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Fox Chase Cancer Center researchers report that radiation therapy alone can reduce prostate specific antigen (PSA) levels below detectable amounts in prostate cancer patients. Patients who have an undetectable level of PSA ...
Compact cancer-therapy particle-delivery system patented
May 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of an effort to make high-precision particle cancer therapy accessible to more patients, a physicist at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has developed ...
Just 4 months of hormone therapy can delay prostate cancer growth by up to 8 years
Jan 02, 2008 |
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[B]Early, short course of hormonal therapy may allow patients to live longer[/B] Alexandria, VA—Researchers report that just four months of hormonal therapy before and with standard external beam radiation therapy slowed can ...
MRI findings help forecast prostate cancer prognosis
Mar 25, 2008 |
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Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings in patients about to undergo radiation therapy for prostate cancer can help predict the likelihood that the cancer will return and spread post-treatment, according to a new study ...
Open cancer surgery set to become a thing of the past
Sep 24, 2008 |
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The surgeon's knife is playing an ever smaller role in the treatment of cancer, as it is replaced by increasingly efficient and safe radiation therapy techniques. Progress in radiation technology will also lead to better ...
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