Hepatoma with cardiac metastasis: An advanced cancer requiring advanced treatment

advanced radiation treatment planning of prostate cancer

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Treatment with sorafenib in advanced thyroid cancer

Papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) usually has a good prognosis. The treatment, including total thyroidectomy and complementary radioiodine (RAI) therapy, gives complete remission in 90% of patients. However, in 10% of subjects with metastatic disease, the prognosis is poor. In the group of patients with disease progression and no 131I uptake, searching for new therapeutic modalities before all tyr...

Brain metastasis reirradiation in patients with advanced breast cancer

The outcome of recurrent brain metastasis is dismal. This study aims to assess the clinical outcomes and toxicity of reirradiation as a salvage treatment for progressive brain metastasis in patients with advanced breast cancer. Between July 2005 and September 2014, the medical records of 56 patients with brain metastasis from breast cancer were retrospectively reviewed. Of these patients, 39 re...

Treatment of advanced gastric cancer

Radical gastrectomy with regional lymphadenectomy is the mainstay of curative treatment for advanced gastric cancer that has penetrated the submucosa: the depth of invasion (i.e extension into the muscularis propria) has been used to divide gastric carcinoma in early and advanced stages (1). The procedure can be undertaken in the context of total or subtotal gastrectomy where D2 lymphadenectomy...

The treatment of advanced cancer.