Radiation treatments

Prostate cancer grows and spreads via three routes. The first route is through local growth. As the tumor grows, it can get large enough to compress the urethra, making it difficult to urinate. In the...

>>>DR. JAY HARNESS: If you have a mastectomy, you usually do not need radiation therapy. Now there are exceptions to this and the exceptions are a little technical. One of the...

Brian D. Lawenda, MD>>> In order to decrease the risk of lymphedema, radiation oncologist can use certain techniques to stay off of the lymph node regions so he can more carefully...

>>>DR. AFSHIN FOROUZZANIA: The incidence of lymphedema after radiation therapy depends on a number of factors, depends on the patients themselves, how aggressive of a surgery they...

Brian D. Lawenda, MD>>> The first time you visit with a radiation oncologist, let me tell you about what to expect. You are going to come into my office and you are going to sit...

Farshid Dayyani: Hormone therapy is highly effective and used in all stages of prostate cancer. By hormone therapy, we actually mean antihormonal therapy or reducing the serum testosterone levels....

IORT radiation therapy has been around for a longtime, but the resurgence in the interest in intraoperative radiation therapy is the fact that we now have mobile linear accelerators that can deliver...

>>>Dr. Harness: I often find myself in an interesting discussion with patients about adjuvant versus neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Now, my medical oncologist colleague, Dr. David...

>>>Dr. David Margileth: When the choice for primary therapy for breast cancer is mastectomy, one of the dilemmas has been when should those patients receive post-mastectomy...

Brachytherapy is a type of internal radiation treatment... where we place radioactive sources inside the cancer. So unlike radiotherapy from the outside, Or external beam radiotherapy, the...