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After receiving radiation therapy for uterine cancer, you may experience fertility challenges, vaginal dryness, and bowel or bladder problems. Options to manage and relieve your side effects can vary.
Delays in postoperative radiation for head and neck cancer are strongly tied to multiple barriers and poor care coordination, ...
Experts say bureaucracy is "stifling innovation" and that applying for funding to pay for new treatments can be "cumbersome".
UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in Central Pennsylvania is offering Surface Guided Radiation Therapy to treat a variety of cancers ...
Patients with secondary rectal cancer (SRC) after radiotherapy (RT) for prostate cancer have shorter survival compared with matched treatment-naïve patients, (1) but factors explaining this gap have ...
Neoadjuvant radiotherapy followed by surgery can improve overall survival compared with surgery alone in certain patients with locally advanced rectal cancers, most notably in those with lower rectal ...
A multi-center, randomized phase III trial has found that a three-week hypofractionated radiotherapy (HypoRT) schedule with ...
It’s shocking. We haven’t had an advance in this space for maybe ever,” an oncologist said about a new use of proton beam ...
Rectal cancer is a type of bowel cancer that develops in the last several centimeters of the large intestine, just before the anus. It’s one of the most common cancers in Europe, with over 125,000 ...
Fortunately, a lot of progress has been made over the years, so many cancer diagnoses aren’t nearly as fatal as they once ...
Since 2018, radiotherapy has helped cancer patients in Rwanda receive treatment closer to home. Before then, many had to travel to Uganda or Kenya for care. Today, the therapy is delivered at Rwanda ...