We present the case of a 42-year-old woman with myotonic dystrophy and thymoma. She was treated with combination chemotherapy followed by external beam radiation, and remains in remission 19 months after thymoma was diagnosed. The myotonic dystrophy is unchanged. Only six cases of this nature have been reported in the literature, and this patient is the first to be successfully treated with com...

OBJECTIVE To present the characteristics and treatment outcomes of patients with retinoblastoma. METHODS A retrospective case series was conducted to review the records of all new patients diagnosed with retinoblastoma between 2003 and 2005. Eyes with early disease, or advanced disease with potential vision were treated with chemotherapy (carboplatin and etoposide) in conjunction with early l...

BACKGROUND Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is a near uniformly fatal form of prostate cancer; however, information on time to development and predictors for progression to CRPC is limited. We report a detailed longitudinal study for development of CRPC in men initially treated with external beam radiotherapy (EBRT). METHODS During 1991-2008, 2,478 patients with clinically localize...

OBJECTIVE To study the clinical parameters and treatment outcome of medullary thyroid carcinoma in Hong Kong Chinese patients. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Regional oncology unit, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma who were identified among 1656 patients with thyroid malignancies seen in a single institute in Hong Kong from January 1960 to June 2003. MA...

PURPOSE Studies of patients' preferences for localized prostate cancer treatments have assessed radical prostatectomy and external radiation therapy, but none of them has evaluated brachytherapy. The aim of our study was to assess the preferences and willingness to pay of patients with localized prostate cancer who had been treated with radical prostatectomy, external radiation therapy, or brac...

background and aims. the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of propolis were studied. since saliva contains antioxidants and radiotherapy of the head and neck mainly affects the saliva, salivary antioxidant defensive mechanism is compromised with oxidative stress produced by radiation therapy. therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of propolis on salivar...

JULY/AUGUST 2010 ADVANCED OCULAR CARE 33 R adiation therapy has been evaluated extensively as a treatment for choroidal neovascularization (CNV) due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) because of its antiangiogenic, antifibrotic, and anti-inflammatory properties.1-3 Historically, radiation for AMD has been delivered with two broad approaches: (1) radiotherapy with external beam (megavolta...

Radiation therapy is the first choice of treatment for most of the early squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Conventional radiotherapy however, contributes to the high local control rates only for carcinoma of the glottic larynx and the nasopharynx. Squamous cell carcinoma of the other sites cannot be sterilized easily only by external beam radiation therapy alone. Chemoradiotherapy, ...

Introduction In order to discharge the patients receiving treatment with large radiation doses of 131I for thyroid cancer, it is necessary to measure and evaluate the external dose rates of these patients. The aim of the study was to assess a new method of external dose rate measurement, and to analyze the obtained results as a function of time. Materials and Methods In this study, a telescopic...