BACKGROUND Acute radiation proctitis is a common complication of pelvic radiation and management of acute radiation proctitis is under evaluation. The beneficial effects of ozonated olive oil (OzOO) have already been shown in the treatment of chronic wounds. Thus, this study was designed to evaluate the therapeutic effects of topical OzOO on acute radiation proctitis. AIMS To evaluate the the...

Although locoregional relapse is frequent after definitive radiotherapy (RT) or multimodal treatments, re-irradiation is only performed in few patients even in palliative settings like e.g. vertebral metastasis. This is most due to concern about potentially severe complications, especially when large volumes are exposed to re-irradiation. With technological advancements in treatment planning th...

Irradiation may have a profound effect on reproductive function. The schedule of the delivered irradiation (total dose, number of fractions, and duration) is an important determinant of the radiobiological effect on the tissues involved and varies among different tissues and organs. Irradiation to the central nervous system may affect the timing of the onset of puberty, result in hyperprolactin...

Background: The aim of this study was to investigate the protective potency of melatonin, amifostine (WR-2721), and N-acetylcysteine (NAC) when administered intraperitoneally (i.p.) 15 min before 10-Gy single-fraction radiotherapy. Materials and Methods: In this study, 35 female Sprague Dawley rats were divided into five groups of seven rats each. The rats in the control group did not receive a...

treated for carcinoma of the anal canal with a combination of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and surgery. Three years later he presented with a 5-month history of severe left hip pain and a 2-month history of severe right hip pain. He required the assistance of a cane for walking. Clinical concerns included fracture and metastatic disease. A plain film of the pelvis showed diffuse osteopenia. A tec...

Evaluation of tumor extent before treatment and its response to therapy is important. The aim of this report is to assess the usefulness with thallium-201 (Tl-201) imaging study including whole body scan and pelvic single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) in patients with uterine cervical cancers treated by radiation therapy. Before irradiation, eleven patients received detailed physi...

abstract: introduction: currently, cancers are among the important and main problems of health system in iran and around the world. in young men under 20 to 35 years of age, malignant masses of testis are the most common tumours. the main pathologic feature of these masses is germ cell tumour and about half of them are seminoma. since seminoma is very prevalent in the forth decade, being affect...

AIM The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of radiotherapy on lipid peroxidation, total sulfhydryl groups (RSH) and nitric oxide (NO radical) levels in plasma of cancer patients treated on different anatomic sites, and to compare the results with control subjects. METHODS 89 patients with various malignancies and 33 healthy control subjects were recruited for the study. Cancer patie...

From January 1, 1947, through December 31, 1971, 219 patients with primary adenocarcinoma of the intact uterine cervix were treated at the M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute. Two modes of therapy were primarily used, namely, irradiationtherapy alone and irradiation therapy plus operation. The 5 year survival resultsare 83.7 per cent for patients with Stage i disease, 48.0 per cent for...

We review the treatment of pelvic Ewing's sarcoma by the implantation of extracorporeally-irradiated (ECI) autografts and compare the outcome with that of other reported methods. We treated 13 patients with ECI autografts between 1994 and 2004. There were seven males and six females with a median age of 15.7 years (interquartile range (IQR) 12.2 to 21.7). At a median follow-up of five years (IQ...