The treatment of cancer of the anal canal has changed significantly over the past several decades. Although the abdominoperineal resection (APR) was the historical standard of care, a therapeutic paradigm shift occurred with the seminal work of Nigro, who reported that anal canal cancer could be... More »
Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) has been used in the management of prostate cancer for more than four decades. Initially, hormone therapy was given largely for palliation of symptomatic metastases. Following several randomized trials of patients with intermediate- to high-risk prostate cancer... More »
Prostate cancer is the second most common cause of cancer death in American men. What to do when prostate cancer recurs months or years after a patient undergoes radical prostatectomy is an area of active research. Patients who underwent radical prostatectomy without immediate adjuvant radiation... More »
In this issue of Oncology, Dr. Kilbridge details the incorporation of nontraditional outcome measures in the evaluation of cancer therapies—the importance of which is underscored by the passage of the sweeping healthcare reform bill that will alter the landscape of healthcare delivery for years to... More »
Our specifically developed approach consists of applying brachytherapy to the tumor area using a mold. ... METHODS AND MATERIALS: Thirteen patients were referred for brachytherapy if complete remission was not reached after chemotherapy ...
IIIb adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix treated with high-dose-rate intracavitary brachytherapy combined with external beam radiation therapy in Japan aimed ... IIIb adenocarcinoma of the uterine cervix underwent high-dose-rate intracavitary brachytherapy combined with external beam radiation therapy in 19 major hospitals in Japan. ...
biochemical outcomes of young men treated with low-dose-rate brachytherapy for prostate cancer. METHODS AND MATERIALS: From 1990 ... clinically localized prostate cancer were treated with low-dose-rate brachytherapy +/- hormone therapy (HT) +/- external ...
(AUR) in patients treated with (125)I prostate brachytherapy on short- and long-term health-related quality of life ... METHODS AND MATERIALS: For 127 patients treated with (125)I brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer between December 2000 and June 2003 ...
planning of computed tomography (CT)-guided interstitialbrachytherapy for liver metastases. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A total ... All patients had undergone fluorodeoxyglucose-PET for patient evaluation before interstitial CT-guided brachytherapy. A contrast-enhanced CT scan of the upper abdomen ...
