Radiotherapy is a proven skin cancer treatment modality with cure rates comparable to surgery. To make sure of its effectiveness while being safe, it is necessary to provide conformal dose coverage at the target (tumour) while sparing the surrounding normal tissues....
Radiotherapy remains one of many treatment options available for patients diagnosed with non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC). NMSC is a radiation-responsive cancer and patients treated with definitive radiotherapy can expect excellent local control rates of >90–95%....
PURPOSE: The aim was to reduce radiation exposure of the lung in experimental models to increase overall survival of mice to study late radiation-induced heart disease. METHODS AND MATERIALS: A new irradiation plan was established on the Small Animal Radiation...
Background Radiation-induced gastrointestinal syndrome (RIGS) results from the acute loss of intestinal stem cells (ISC), impaired epithelial regeneration, and subsequent loss of the mucosal barrier, resulting in electrolyte imbalance, diarrhea, weight loss, sepsis,...
ASTRO Interview with Dr. Eric Ford A few months ago, I received the opportunity to sit down with notable physicist, professor, and experimental radiobiology researcher, Dr. Eric Ford. As one of the masterminds behind the Precision Proton Radiotherapy Platform, which...
Radiation therapy has proven to be an efficient and effective second line option for the treatment of Basal Cell and Squamous Cell Carcinomas, used in special circumstances, such as when surgical intervention is contraindicated or patient scarring concerns. Melanomas...
Combined radiotherapy and hyperthermia offer great potential for the successful treatment of radio-resistant tumours through thermo-radiosensitization. Tumour response heterogeneity, due to intrinsic, or micro-environmentally induced factors, may greatly influence...
Outside of getting excited about playoff hockey and snowboard trips out west, I also find myself enthusiastic about studies/efforts in cancer biology that push the boundaries to further characterize pre-clinical cancer models in a clinical way. The study presented in...
Throughout the last 100 years, numerous milestones in the study and treatment of cancer have been achieved. Discoveries like combination chemotherapy, correlation of smoking and lung cancer, HPV and cervical carcinogenesis, BRCA-1&2 gene inheritance and breast...
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