Treating tumours

Contemporary possibilities of treating vasoformative tissue tumours.

The authors present a review of up-to-date methods of vasoformative tissue tumours treatment. The necessity to choose the best therapy and the risks of single therapeutical procedures are pointed out.

Criticism of conventional methods of treating solid tumours in man.

Results of treating primary tumours of the trachea by irradiation.

Forty-four patients presented with primary tumours of the trachea over a 25-year period. Thirty-nine of them were treated by irradiation. Of these, 24 (61.5%) died as a result of their disease while 30% are either alive and well (4.4-11 years) or have died of intercurrent disease (average four years). Recurrences or metastases when they occurred were in the first two years after diagnosis in al...

The effect of dose escalation on gastric toxicity when treating lower oesophageal tumours: a radiobiological investigation

PURPOSE Using radiobiological modelling to estimate normal tissue toxicity, this study investigates the effects of dose escalation for concurrent chemoradiation therapy (CRT) in lower third oesophageal tumours on the stomach. METHODS AND MATERIALS 10 patients with lower third oesophageal cancer were selected from the SCOPE 1 database (ISCRT47718479) with a mean planning target volume (PTV) of...

Experience of CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery in treating intra and extra-cranial tumours: A review of outcomes.

OBJECTIVE To determine the success rate and complication of CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery for treating intracranial and extra cranial tumours. METHODS The cross-sectional observational study was carried out at the Department of CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi, and reviewed data related to a year from December 2012 to December 2013. Patients...