When a cancer patient receives the news that their cancer is in remission, it is joyous, celebratory news. However, being in remission is not the same thing as the cancer being gone, because there is always the chance, however slim, that the cancer could return. Until...
The goal of a radiation oncologist is to use radiation as an instrument to eliminate cancerous tumors in the body. Radiation therapy has been challenged over the years due to the damage they cause healthy tissues the surround the targeted tumor; however, recent...
Recent improvements in the treatment of children with Hodgkin lymphoma have come about with guidelines for the use of 3D computed tomography (CT) based radiation therapy and volumetric image guidance. The International Lymphoma Radiation Oncology Group created these...
Radiation therapy has been one of the most effective ways to treat cancer. Studies have shown, however, that patients with early stages of breast cancer are at higher risk of heart and lung problems as much as 20 years after treatment. This especially rings true for...
Isn’t it a beautiful thing when technology improves, especially in the medical field? Mesothelioma patients who received novel radiation therapy followed by lung-sparing pleurectomy/decortication (P/D) surgery lived almost twice as long as those who underwent the more...
