Introduction: Computerized treatment planning is a rapidly evolving modality that depends on hardware and software efficiency. Despite ICRU recommendations suggesting 5% deviation in dose delivery the overall uncertainty shall be less than 3.5% as suggested by B.J. Minjnheer. J. In house spreadsheets are developed by the medical physicists to cross-verify the dose calculated by the Treatment Pl...

background: this research was conducted to evaluate the potential benefits of zinc sulphate in the prevention of radiation induced mucositis in patients who are being treated for head and neck cancers. materials and methods: forty patients with proven cancers of head and neck were randomly divided into 2 equal groups that either received zinc sulphate or placebo (control group). patients who re...

introduction: breast cancer is the second most common cause of brain metastasis. although patient prognosis is poor, isolated brain metastasis occasionally can be an option for treatment with curative intent in breast cancer patients. case presentation: we report a patient with invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast who developed an isolated right frontal lobe metastasis within 5 months of fin...

conclusions consultation sessions are necessary to reduce depression of patients with cancer. since depression may reduce quality of life and reaction to treatment, curing depression may relatively reduce side effects of disease for patients to have less pain and problems. background cancer is one of the chronic diseases, which increases the risk of depression. the main causes of depression amo...

Nano-sensitizers play key roles in tumor radiotherapy several ways to overcome radioresistance and enhance radioresponse. This review summarizes the recent advances of nano-sensitizers improving cancer radiotherapy.

conclusions when compared to the control group, the swedish massage showed an improvement in the mood disorders of women with breast cancer. results before the intervention, there was no significant difference in the average of the overall scale between the intervention and control groups in the subscales of anger, anxiety, depression, and positive affect (p = 0.469). the average of the overall...

objective(s): radiation therapy for breast cancer can induce myocardial capillary injury and increase cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. a prospective cohort was conducted to study the prevalence of myocardial perfusion abnormalities following radiation therapy of left-sided breast cancer patients as compared to those with right–sided cancer. methods: to minimize potential confounding fact...

introduction: intensity modulated radiation therapy (imrt) is one of the cancer treatment methods. it is important to selectively aim at the target in this way, which can be performed using a multileaf collimator (mlc). materials and methods: in order to specifically irradiate the target volume in radiotherapy to reduce the patient absorbed dose, the use of multileaf collimator has been investi...

introduction: due to its immunosuppressive properties, local graft irradiation (lgi) has been proposed as a second line therapy for treatment of acute kidney rejection. case presentation: in this case-series we report 6 patients with biopsy proven acute kidney allograft rejection refractory to conventional antirejection therapy who underwent lgi for treatment of acute rejection at our center. t...