Juliann Reiland, MD, Surgeon, Avera Medical Group, discusses the merits of combining intraoperative radiation therapy with whole breast radiation therapy. Things Doctors Should Know About Electron Beam Radiation Therapy…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In patients with potentially resectable colorectal liver metastases, the use of combined PET and CT imaging (PET-CT) identifies those with occult extrahepatic disease…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – How much an individual patient with esophageal cancer is likely to benefit, if at all, from chemoradiotherapy (CRT) before undergoing esophagectomy can be…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A preoperative MRI showing whether or not a rectal tumor encroaches on the circumferential resection margin (CRM) is a better predictor of recurrence…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Results of a randomized trial conducted in Italy indicate that conventional external radiotherapy (RT) after breast conserving surgery for early breast cancer is…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Ten-year follow-up data from two UK trials confirm that a lower total dose of radiotherapy delivered in fewer, larger fractions is at least…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A European study indicates that starting with endosonography for assessing mediastinal lymph node status in potentially resectable lung cancer is more cost-effective than…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – In smokers and former smokers, annual lung cancer screening with low-dose (LD) CT scans should not be discontinued after a negative result, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Elderly patients with unresected stage III non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who are not candidates for chemoradiotherapy benefit from radiation therapy (RT) alone, according…
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – After primary surgery for early-stage endometrial cancer, adjuvant external beam radiation therapy confers no survival benefit overall, according to a Norwegian study. In…