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Lung cancer is most often difficult to treat. Not only because it cannot be detected early enough but also because most lung cancer tumors aren’t that responsive to treatment.
Therefore scientists are always looking for the good if not the best treatment combination for lung cancer.
One example is the new mice study from UT Southwestern Medical […]
Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers found out that radiation therapy after lumpectomy (breast-conserving surgery) and five years of treatment with the drug tamoxifen can dramatically reduce the risk of both cancer recurrence and new tumors in older women with early breast cancer.
According to lead author Ann M. Geiger, M.P.H., Ph.D., an associate professor […]
Fox Chase Cancer Center suggests that men with prostate cancer who choose radiation therapy should seek treatment centers that will offer high-dose radiation because their new study findings revealed that higher doses of 74 to 82 Gray (Gy) greatly reduce the risk that the cancer will spread later (even 8-10 years) after treatment.
Such findings were […]
Administering less radiation than usual is just as effective against a benign but potential devastating brain tumor called an acoustic schwannoma and might save more of the patient’s hearing.
Such were the recent findings of radiation oncologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia.
Acoustic schwannoma is a […]
Researchers at Fox Chase Cancer Center have associated smoking and acute side-effects following radiation therapy for prostate cancer, kind-a validating the previous findings that smoking contributes to poorer outcomes for people treated for many kinds of cancer.In their study, the Fox Chase researchers analyzed the impact of smoking on gastrointestinal (GI) and genitourinary (GU) […]
According to a new study appearing in the September 1 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the modern three-dimensional radiation therapy proved to be more successful in curing lung cancer as compared to the older two-dimensional radiation therapy in some patients with early stage lung cancer.
87% of all lung cancer diagnosed is non-small […]
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