Background: Three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy is a new tool in the Senegalese therapeutic arsenal. Symptomatic bone metastases affect quality of life patients. Analgesic proposed to patients relieve them. Patients and methods: A prospective descriptive study was carried out on all with symptomatic metastasis. Hypo-fractionated performed painful site. The visual analogue scale used assess...

BACKGROUND Preoperative radiotherapy is considered to be standard treatment for locally advanced rectal cancer. The timing and dosage of radiotherapy with or without preoperative chemotherapy remain controversial issues. The objective of this study was to evaluate relevant clinical outcomes of two preoperative radiotherapy regimens - the short-course and -long-course radiotherapy with or withou...

ABSTRACT Objective: To estimate the incidence and degree of acute radiodermatitis at end after treatment in women with breast cancer undergoing hypofractionated radiotherapy. Methods: Observational, prospective, longitudinal study, conducted between March 2019 January 2020, a radiotherapy outpatient clinic. Results: Thirty-two participated among whom, last session radiotherapy, 15 (46.9%) had r...

Introduction: External radiotherapy is the most common method of radiotherapy which the most important problem associated with is that there is no difference between healthy and tumor tissues in dose absorption. One way to differentiate the dose sensitivity is to use metal-based nanoparticles. Bismuth oxide nanoparticles are good candidates for cancer radiotherapy. In this study, we investigate...

Background: Numerous unique characteristics of the nanosized gold, including high atomic number, low toxicity, and high biocompatibility make it one of the most appropriate nanostructures to boost radiotherapy efficacy. Many in-vivo and in-vitro investigations have indicated that gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) can significantly increase tumor injuries in low kilovoltage radiotherapy. While deep-lyi...

BACKGROUND Recent randomised studies reported that single fraction radiotherapy was as effective as multifraction radiotherapy in relieving pain due to bone metastasis. However, there are concerns about the higher re-treatment rates and the efficacy of preventing future complications such as pathological fracture and spinal cord compression by single fraction radiotherapy. OBJECTIVES To under...

Objective. To compare adjuvant radiotherapy and salvage radiotherapy after radical resection for treatment of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). Methods. Data from 155 patients with locally advanced ESCC who underwent radical resection and received postoperative radiotherapy from 2005 to 2011 were reviewed. Seventy-nine patients received adjuvant radiotherapy and 76 received salvage rad...

PURPOSE Genetic radiotherapy, the combination of gene therapy and radiation therapy, for cancer treatment is evolving from laboratory studies to clinical trials. Genetic radiotherapy involves the viral infection of cells that change the sensitivity of transduced cells to radiation. Because there is no patient outcome data for genetic radiotherapy, prospective models are needed to determine the ...

Background: Bone is the most common site for metastases in cancer and may complicate a wide range of malignancies. Radiotherapy successful efficient method pain palliation it can prevent morbidity bone metastases. Pain flare event, occurring almost 40% patients that receive palliative radiotherapy. Dexamethasone has shown possibility prevention such flare. Objective: This study aimed to investi...