ABSTRACT Objective: To estimate the incidence and distribution of degree radiodermatitis in cancer patients submitted to radiotherapy regions head neck, breast, pelvis. Method: Prospective, longitudinal, quantitative study conducted from March 15, 2016 May 4, 2017 with observed for five weeks treatment. The primary outcome was proportion grade 1 or higher each week. mean time occurrence patient...

Breast cancer is increasingly prevalent in older adults and a substantial part of routine oncology practice. However, management breast this population challenging because the disease highly heterogeneous there insufficient evidence specific to adults. Decision making should not be driven by age alone but involve geriatric assessments plus careful consideration life expectancy, competing risks ...

Introduction: Breast conserving radiotherapy is one of the most common procedures performed in any radiation oncology department. A tangential parallel-opposed pair is usually used for this purpose. This technique is performed using 2D or 3D treatment planning systems. The aim of this study was to compare 2D treatment planning with 3D treatment planning in tangential irradiation in breast conse...

BACKGROUND Radiation induced secondary cancers are a rare but severe late effect after breast conserving therapy. Intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) is increasingly used during breast conserving surgery. The purpose of this analysis was to estimate secondary cancer risks after IORT compared to other modalities of breast radiotherapy (APBI - accelerated partial breast irradiation, EBRT - externa...

introduction: cauda equina secondary to metastatic follicular thyroid cancer of the lumbosacral area is a rare entity.   case report: we report an unusual case of a 52-year-old male who presented with backache, lower limb weakness, and perianal numbness. a ct-scan of the lumbosacral area showed an enhancing mass at the l4, l5 and s1 vertebrae. histopathology after excision revealed a metastatic...

SECONDARY neoplasm of the thyroid gland is uncommon, but perusal of the literature reveals a higher incidence than might be generally assumed. Muller (i892) reported the incidence of macroscopic metastatic carcinoma of the thyroid as 1.5%11 in all cases of carcinoma, regardless of primary site. The incidence in cases of sarcoma was 3.i%. Kitain (I922) recorded the incidence in regard to carcino...

Introduction: A main choice for cancer treatment is radiotherapy. But, the radiotherapy disadvantage is damages caused by radiation given to normal tissues/organs surrounding cancer. One way to avoid this is via increasing radiosensitization of cancer cells. Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have shown sensitizing effect on cancer cells by enhancing their absorbed dose. Unlike earlier ...

background patients with breast cancer often have to deal with severe drug side effects and psychological distress during cancer diagnose and cancer treatment. anxiety is thepsychiatric problems encountered in breast cancer patients. alongside medical treatment, many breast cancer patients use forms of complementary and alternative medicine (cam) to manage the above side effects. this study aim...