منابع مشابه
Technological Progress in Radiation Therapy for Brain Tumors
To achieve a good therapeutic ratio the radiation dose to the tumor should be as high as possible with the lowest possible dose to the surrounding normal tissue. This is especially the case for brain tumors. Technological advancements in diagnostic imaging, dose calculations, and radiation delivery systems, combined with a better understanding of the pathophysiology of brain tumors have led to ...
متن کاملProgress and controversies: radiation therapy for invasive breast cancer.
Radiation therapy is a critical component of the multidisciplinary management of invasive breast cancer. In appropriately selected patients, radiation not only improves local control, sparing patients the morbidity and distress of local recurrence, but it also improves survival by preventing seeding and reseeding of distant metastases from persistent reservoirs of locoregional disease. In recen...
متن کاملIN TRAOPERATIVE RADIATION THERAPY FOR GASTRIC ADENOCARCINOMA
Intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) is a multidisciplinary approach in which residual tumors or tumor beds are directly irradiated during a surgical procedure. To evaluate its efficacy, from 1985, we conducted a prospective study including non-metastatic gastric adenocarcinoma treated by surgery, IORT (15 Grays) and postoperative external beam radiotherapy (44 Grays). Up to 1993, 51 ca...
متن کاملProgress in Behaviour Therapy
This is a report on the proceedings of a one-day symposium held at the Postgraduate Medical Institute of the University of Salford in October 1967. The panel consisted of seven psychiatrists and two clinical psychologists , all of whom had practised and carried out research into behaviour therapy. In an introductory article, the editor briefly outlines the theoretical background and the history...
متن کاملEvolution and progress in the application of radiation in cancer diagnosis and therapy
Cancer is a ubiquitous health problem globally caused by poor food quality, environmental pollution, genetic factors, etc. Despite the manifold presumptive theories put forth for its causation, there is an extreme paucity of knowledge as regards the actual etiology of cancer, as well as any preventive or prophylactic therapy. The treatment options available include surgery, chemotherapy and rad...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: JOURNAL OF JAPAN SOCIETY FOR HEAD AND NECK SURGERY
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1349-581X,1884-474X
DOI: 10.5106/jjshns.20.47