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Topic: Radiation Therapy (view all topics)

Tags for topic Radiation Therapy:

• 3-D conformal external beam radiation (also called 3DCRT)
• After surgery
• Before surgery
• Brain
• Breast
• Dose-Dense
• External
• Internal (also called "brachytherapy")
• Low-Dose
• Lymph nodes
• Standard (most typical)

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• Lower Dose of Radiation Therapy Just as Good as Current Regimen for Early-Stage Breast Cancer

  Published on January 8, 2013 at 8:51 am

  • Tags: Low-Dose, Breast, After surgery, and External

  A study compared the standard radiation therapy schedule to shorter, lower-dose radiation schedules and found that the risk of early-stage breast cancer coming back (recurrence) was about the same for all the schedules. The lower-dose schedules also had fewer effects on healthy breast tissue.

• Recurrence Risk Same for Standard, Lower-Dose Radiation Schedules

  Published on February 10, 2010 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: External, Low-Dose, Standard (most typical), After surgery, and Breast

  Research suggests that newer, low-dose radiation therapy schedules are as effective as the standard schedule.

• Side Effects, Body Image Concerns Same for Standard and Lower-Dose Radiation Schedules

  Published on February 7, 2010 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: External, Low-Dose, Standard (most typical), After surgery, and Breast

  Researchers compared a standard radiation therapy schedule to new, lower-dose schedules and found that side effects and body image concerns were about the same for all the schedules

• Lower-Dose Radiation Seems OK After Lumpectomy

  Published on September 22, 2008 at 12:00 am

  • Tags: External, Low-Dose, Standard (most typical), After surgery, and Breast

  Women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer with no lymph node involvement who got a lower dose of radiation for a shorter time after lumpectomy had the same outcome as women who got standard radiation therapy (a higher dose for a longer time).