Radiation oncology

Cancer, we hear about it every day. More and more people being diagnosed as the years pass on. Out of all the types of cancer there is one that keeps us mind blown the most and that’s brain cancer. With 78’000 people diagnosed a year, 28’000 being adults, 13’350 men and 10’420 women with 4’000 being kids. Brain cancer is a real mystery from the history of it, how it starts in the brain, and the causes of it to the new treatments that are coming into play. Throughout recorded history humans and…

This past summer I had been working on the oncology floor as a nursing extern. There is one patient I will never forget. This patient had come in with stage four brain cancer. I remember the other nurses talking to me about how they remembered the same patient coming in two years earlier. She was diagnosed with stage two cancer on that day. Her husband, her two children, and her five grandchildren came into visit her often. She was getting radiation and steroids to see if that would help with…

is as a screening tool for neurologically asymptomatic patients undergoing routine cancer workup and follow-up [43]. Once epidural disease has been identified, MRI, the gold standard for spinal imaging, can further delineate anatomic details for radiation therapy or surgical planning purposes [32-34]. On MRI, epidural lesions are most often T1 hypointense and T2 hyperintense with avid enhancement on post…

Background Ovarian cancer (OC) is the seventh most common cancer for women worldwide in 2012(1). In Canada, 17,000 women are living with ovarian cancer, and it is ranked the fifth most common cancer for Canadian Canadian women in 2013(2). According to the recently released surveillance report, 2,700 new cases will be diagnosed in 2014 in Canada?(3). Moreover, it is the most fatal women’s cancer, with the average of 45% 5-year survival rate comparing to 89% of the survival rate for women with…

Introduction: According to the North Dakota Cancer Coalition (2011), one out of two men and one out of three women will develop cancer in their lifetimes. Research estimates at least 10% of cancer patients do not receive effective relief of their cancer pain identified by the World Health Organization (WHO) three-step ladder guidelines, and an upwards to 30% of patients receive poor pain control, especially in their last year of life (Raphael et al., 2010). For patients with refractory cancer…

simple wounding, and repeating diseases. Albeit Hairy cell leukemia is obscure, it for the most part influences individuals around the age of 55. Men are five times more prone to create HCL than ladies. As indicated by the American Society of Clinical Oncology, an expected 48,610 individuals of all ages (27,880 men and 20,730 ladies) in the United States will be determined to have leukemia and HCL represents around 2% of all leukemia analyze. In all patients, the initial two years after…

other parts of the body, such as the liver or lungs (Staging, C., & Staging, O, 2016). There are currently five methods of treatment for women affected with ovarian cancer which include: Surgery, Chemotherapy, Hormone therapy, Targeted therapy, and Radiation therapy (Cancer.org,…

trial to evaluate the benefit of adding zalutumumab to radiotherapy. In this trial, 619 patients with SCCHN (89%with stage III-IV disease) were randomized to receive radiation (n=309) or radiation plus zalutumumab at 8 mg/kg (n=310). Zalutumumab was started one week prior to beginning radiation and continued weekly during radiation. The first results showed that the two arms did not show any difference in LRC (79% vs. 78%). Although patients with p16 positive tumors had better LRC (83% vs. 73%…

ages 0-19 in 2006-2010 for sex and race/ethnicity; 38.4 for boys, 30.2 for girls, 34.2 for non-hispanic white, 18.3 for non-hispanic black, 44.9 for hispanic, and 28.7 for asian american/pacific islander” (American Cancer Society, 2014). Pediatric oncology is something that I would like to go to school for and specialize in. Cancer is a very aggressive disease, there is no way to cure or prevent it. Trying to fight the cancer could be very arduous, which would make it harder on children who may…

There are four types of external-beam radiation therapy: Three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT), Intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), Proton beam therapy, and Stereotactic radiation therapy. 3D-CRT has special computers creating detailed 3D pictures of the cancer allowing the treatment team to target the beam more accurately. With this method, they are able to use higher doses of radiation while having reduced risk of healthy tissue damage. IMRT uses a Varian Clinac iX-S…