Lung-Sparing Cancer Surgery

Lung-sparing cancer surgery.

Accessible online at: www.karger.com/journals/res Lung cancer is a major public health problem of growing importance throughout the world with frustrating long-term survival of under 15%. A majority of patients are unresectable at time of diagnosis, and even in those deemed operable, comorbid problems often limit efforts at successful resection. Procedures designed to preserve pulmonary functio...

Fertility sparing surgery in gynecologic cancer.

Fertility preservation is one of the major concerns of young patients diagnosed with gynecological cancer. With newer treatment regimens and better surgical techniques, survival rates after cancer treatment have improved, hence preservation of fertility has recently become an important issue in the treatment of gynecological cancers. Fertility sparing surgery may be an option for early-stage ce...

Normal lung sparing Tomotherapy technique in stage III lung cancer

PURPOSE Radiation pneumonitis (RP) has been a challenging obstacle in treating stage III lung cancer patients. Beam angle optimization (BAO) technique for Tomotherapy was developed to reduce the normal lung dose for stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Comparative analyses on plan quality by 3 different Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) methods with BAO were done. MATERIAL...

Laparoscopic Fertility Sparing Management of Cervical Cancer

Fertility-sparing surgery in high-risk ovarian cancer

To the editor: Ovarian cancer is considered one of the most lethal gynecological malignancy, characterized by a high death/incidence ratio [1,2]. Median age at diagnosis was 63 years (range, 55 to 64 years) [1] However, it is estimated that about 10% of ovarian cancer cases will be diagnosed in women in reproductive age [1-3]. In fact, in the United States more than 10,000 new cases of ovarian ...