Radiation therapy is the most important part of a modality in management patients with malignancy. The incidence heart disease caused by radiation has increased recent decades, due to survival rate malignancies chest area receiving therapy. Purpose To determine impact on cancer patients. This study literature review, articles were collected using Google Scholar, ScienceDirect, and PubMed databa...

BMI: Body Mass Index; RT: Radiation Therapy; EBRT: External Beam Radiation Therapy; BT: Brachytherapy; IGRT: Image Guided Radiation Therapy; BCR: Biochemical Recurrence; OS: Overall Survival; ADT: Androgen Deprivation Therapy; IMRT: Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy; PCS: Physical Component Scale; EPIC: Expanded Prostate Cancer Index Composite Scoring System; SF-12: Short Form Health Survey...

Current indications for radiation therapy in women with breast cancer are controversial and continue to be modified. Current indications for breast reconstruction in the setting of radiation therapy are also controversial and poorly defined. The purpose of this study is to analyze oncologic outcomes following various methods of breast reconstruction in the setting of radiation therapy. A retros...

For patients with locally advanced primary or recurrent gynecologic cancers, prognosis is poor. Doses of external beam radiation therapy required to treat either gross or microscopic disease in patients previously irradiated or treated surgically exceed doses that are tolerated by normal anatomic structures. Intraoperative radiation therapy allows maximal tumor control achievable with radiation...

BACKGROUND For women with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), radiation therapy after conservative surgery lowers the risk of recurrence. However, emerging evidence suggests that radiation therapy confers only a marginal absolute benefit for older women with DCIS. In a cohort of older women with DCIS, we sought to determine whether radiation therapy was associated with a clinically significant ben...

Head and neck cancer is becoming a more recognizable pathology to the general population and dentists. The modes of treatment include surgery and/or radiation therapy. Where possible, pretreatment dental assessment shall be provided for these patients before they undergo radiation therapy. There are occasions, however, whereby head and neck cancer patients are not prepared optimally for radiati...

BACKGROUND To evaluate acute toxicity endpoints in a cohort of patients receiving head and neck radiation with proton therapy or intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT). METHODS Forty patients received comprehensive head and neck radiation including bilateral cervical nodal radiation, given with or without chemotherapy, for tumors of the nasopharynx, nasal cavity or paranasal sinuses, an...

To The ediTor: It is with great interest that we read the article by Hirsch et al, “The use of vertebral augmentation and external beam radiation therapy in the multimodal management of malignant vertebral compression fractures,” published in the 2011 September/October issue of Pain Physician (1). This is a thoughtful and well-designed retrospective article which suggested palliation to patient...

OBJECTIVE To investigate radiation therapy-induced microstructural damage of white matter in patients with high-grade glioma by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI). METHODS DTI was performed in 18 patients with high-grade glioma (WHO grades III and IV) and 13 healthy controls. DTI images were cross-sectionally aligned for the calculation of baseline fractional anisotropy (FA). Interhemispheric FA ...