When patients come to us at Green Spring Station Cancer Hopkins we really take them in like a family member. I know that this diagnosis of cancer brings a lot of hardship and difficulties to personal...
>> Good morning, I'd like first to thank the organizer for giving me this opportunity to share with all of you the challenges that we face at RTOG of the bioinformatics technical...
Trigeminal neuralgia is not exactly a disease. It is a condition, a unfortunate condition because a it's a terrible pain the patient has to suffer. For trigeminal neuralgia, gamma knife is...
Radiation therapy is a vital component of breast cancer management, either instead of, or following mastectomy. Alta Bates Summit Medical Center has been a leading innovator of techniques designed to...
Brachytherapy is a method of delivering a high dose of radiation to a small area. And to do that, we, in the case of breast cancer, after the surgeon has removed the tumor there is a small cavity left...
>>>Dr. Jay Harness: Low grade DCIS. I had a question about the treatment of low grade DCIS. Another videos that I have done here at Breast Cancer Answers, I really emphasized high...
>>> DR. JAY K. HARNESS: Radiation therapy involves typically a linear accelerator that gives radiation to a targeted area. We typically give it in little, tiny (they are called...
>>> Dr. JAY HARNESS: Stage 0, by definition, is in situ breast cancer. So the treatment certainly involves surgery and certainly involves a removal of the area of the in situ...

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According to the National Cancer Institute, cervical cancer is curable if caught early. Treatment usually involves surgery, radiation or chemotherapy. WeÕll talk about the main options here, but only...
There is a lot of controversy about who needs to get radiation after a mastectomy, particularly if they have one to three lymph nodes positive. Here is what I like to tell my patients. There is an...