Category: <span>radiation therapy</span>

Definitive Radiation Therapy Extends Mesothelioma Survival

Patients with pleural mesothelioma are missing a chance to increase survival time because they are underutilizing definitive radiation, according to a recent study by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. A team of doctors found that overall survival at the two- and five-year marks almost doubled for the small…

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IMPRINT Mesothelioma Treatment Boosts Radiation Therapy

Doctors confirmed a novel radiation procedure can be combined safely and effectively with aggressive lung-sparing surgery to improve survival time and quality of life for patients with mesothelioma. After a decade of refinement, a small number of mesothelioma specialty centers now are using intensity-modulated pleural radiation therapy (IMPRINT) as part of the recent advancements in…

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IMPRINT Mesothelioma Treatment Boosts Radiation Therapy

Doctors confirmed a novel radiation procedure can be combined safely and effectively with aggressive lung-sparing surgery to improve survival time and quality of life for patients with mesothelioma. After a decade of refinement, a small number of mesothelioma specialty centers now are using intensity-modulated pleural radiation therapy (IMPRINT) as part of the recent advancements in…

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IMPRINT Mesothelioma Treatment Boosts Radiation Therapy

Doctors confirmed a novel radiation procedure can be combined safely and effectively with aggressive lung-sparing surgery to improve survival time and quality of life for patients with mesothelioma. After a decade of refinement, a small number of mesothelioma specialty centers now are using intensity-modulated pleural radiation therapy (IMPRINT) as part of the recent advancements in…

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