Radiation therapy algorithm could reduce side effects and maintain effect against tumours: Radiology and Oncology 2018

Radiation therapy is an invasive procedure and it is highly targeted and highly efficient techniques used to detect and destroy cancer cells. It is easy to tolerate, and its side effects are limited to the treated section. Radiation therapy uses high-energy x-rays to kill tumour cells.

Radiation for Breast Cancer

When cells in the breast begin to uncontrolled division. These cells usually form a tumour that can often be seen on an x-ray. The tumour is malignant if the cells can grow into surrounding tissues or spread to distant areas of the body. Breast cancer occurs almost entirely in women; nevertheless, men can get breast cancer, too. Breast cancer radiation therapy also used to diagnose any remaining mutated cells that remain in the breast or armpit area after surgery.

Types of therapies which are used to treat breast cancer

Chemotherapy

Hormone Therapy

Targeted therapy

Radiation can help

·         Decrease pain

·         Minor risk of broken bones in areas that may be weakened from cancer

·         Decrease bleeding

·         Improve breathing by opening a blocked airway

New MRI technology can reduce need for tumour biopsies

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is an imaging technique used to detect cancer easily. MRI plays an important role in cancer diagnosis, staging and treatment. The most common type of tumour found in the kidney is generally quite small (less than 1.5 in).

Studies Favour MRI In Prostate Cancer Detection

Studies are defining an ever-larger role for MRI in detecting prostate cancer. One of the most recent, performed by researchers, found MRI to be 97 percent effective in ruling out prostate cancer for men with abnormal prostate specific antigen levels or digital rectal exam results.

Radioimmunotherapy Active in Advanced Cancers

The study added to evidence that radiation therapy induces an abscopal effect that extends beyond the treatment target, as targeted treatment of metastases led to responses or stable disease in almost half of a group of untreated tumors. Radiotherapy had a vaccine-like effect on treated tumors, stimulating an immune response that reached untreated tumors.

The phase II involved a total of 100 patients with various types of advanced (stage IV) solid tumors that had metastasized to the lungs or liver. Most patients with this type of cancer receive only system therapy.