Proton beam therapy is a precise form of radiation that can reduce the side-effects of cancer treatment. It is available around the world, but not in Canada.
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Radiotherapy takes many forms: from directing powerful high-energy beams toward specific areas of the body to placing radioactive seeds right next to tumors.
Higher doses of radiotherapy for cancer treatment destroy more healthy tissue as well as more tumour cells. Gold nanoparticles sensitize tumours to radiation, making treatment more effective.
Children with cancer not only endure chemotherapy or radiation treatment but they may also face infertility in adulthood. Now a new procedure, just proven in monkeys, may be close to use in humans.
Palliative radiation therapy can improve a cancer patient’s life, by alleviating pain and other symptoms. Unfortunately, some doctors associate the term with end-of-life care and fail to refer people.
Multidisciplinary rehabilitation teams could help cancer survivors to recover from the toxic side-effects of their treatments and return to their lives.
While more women than ever are surviving breast cancer, they often do so with bad side effects. Studies are showing that physical therapy early in the post-treatment phase can help.
Cancer is the second leading cause of death globally. Mathematicians have joined the fight, developing models to both test cancer drug combinations and understand chemotherapy drug resistance.
Great strides have been made in cancer medicine over decades, but it’s important not to forget the growing role that kindness and empathy play in good care.
Poor people who have cancer are one of the most financially vulnerable groups in the US. Obamacare aimed to improve their access to care. A recent study shows how it did.
Women with breast cancer often have six weeks of radiation therapy after surgery to remove the cancer. A recent study suggests that shortening that time is not only effective but also cost-saving.
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Assistant Professor, University of Florida
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Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo
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Adjunct assistant professor, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
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Resident in Radiation Oncology, Duke University
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Associate Professor of Physical Therapy, University of Dayton
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Professor of Marketing; Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Texas A&M University
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Professor of OB/GYN and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
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Assistant Professor of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago
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Assistant Professor of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, University of Chicago
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Associate professor, Physics and Astronomy/Medical physics, University of Victoria
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Director of the Cancer Rehabilitation and Survivorship Program and Butterfield Drew Chair in Cancer Survivorship Research at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre. Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry., University of Toronto
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Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Toronto
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Radiation Oncologist at B.C. Cancer, Palliative Medicine Physician at Victoria Hospice. Clinical Instructor, University of British Columbia
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Radiation Oncologist and Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
