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So you pick out a small lesion in the lung and really focus on it, pinpoint the treatment as opposed to treating a larger area, ... It reduces toxicity and allows you to deliver a very high dose. That's basically where radiation is evolving.

David Greenwald

The future of radiation tends to be what we call stereotactic: radiation, which focuses on the tumor and applies large doses at one time as opposed to traditional radiation which is small doses over a longer time, ... There is a gamma knife that's dedicated to treating brain lesions where, instead of radiating the brain in a three-week period, it's a one-time focused, high-powered type treatment.

David Greenwald

Currently, there is no way of knowing the exact dose of radiation received by a tumor. And, because most organs shift inside the body depending on whether a patient is sitting or lying down, for example, the tumor also shifts. This technology will allow doctors to pinpoint the exact position of the tumor to more effectively administer radiation treatments.

We were doing major radical surgery as standard treatment -- very primitive radiation therapy that carried a lot of toxicity to normal tissue,

We were doing major radical surgery as standard treatment -- very primitive radiation therapy that carried a lot of toxicity to normal tissue.

Lung cancer is treatable if it's caught early. The best treatment for lung cancer is surgery. If it is not caught early, as it is, unfortunately, in two-thirds of patients, we have made some progress in terms of the use of chemotherapy ... and radiation.

I think the most exciting benefit is just the fact that we're now able to do a treatment that in the past has had quite a bit of toxicity for patients. It will result in increased dose intensity to the tumor, and fewer overall side effects for the patient.

Dr. Albert Koong

In this trial, we'll remove half of a lobe or less. The less lung we take, the more lung function we leave behind, so patients will be better able to handle the surgery. Without this option, we would be able to treat the high-risk patients only with radiation and chemotherapy, and these treatments aren't as successful as actually removing the cancer.

We published several papers explaining how these crystals produce X-rays and electron beams, and they're very efficient in doing this. So using low-energy X-rays or low-energy electron beams - by which I mean similar to the energies that are used currently in medical imaging rather than treatment - we can produce a really high dose of electrons that can penetrate a very thin layer of the skin. If such a device can produce high enough dose, then we can possibly use it for cancer treatment - and we're not far from this goal.

The implant makes a big difference in treatment because it allows us to give a very small, targeted dose of the medication directly where it needs to go, which is inside the eye. We no longer have to give a person large doses of medicine, which basically treat the entire body, in order to reach the eye.

This is keeping a second-by-second accounting of your radiation dose. As you're walking around being exposed to radiation, this device is detecting it.

What it really boils down to is what radiation dose would you allow [people to be exposed to] in the long term and where do you measure that dose?

Ascorbic acid (vitamin C, ascorbate) has a controversial history in cancer treatment, ... Observational reports described ascorbate, given in pharmacologic doses of 10 g daily, as effective in treating some cancers and in improving patient well-being. Subsequently, the same dose had no effect on patient well-being and survival in two double-blind placebo-controlled trials, and ascorbate was discarded as a treatment modality.

Surgery for early stage non-small cell lung cancer is standard treatment and is likely curative. Yet, fewer blacks than whites undergo surgery for the disease, leading to a higher mortality rate among blacks with lung cancer,

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Treatment doesn't bring back the risk to that of someone without hypertension, . His unpretentious nature and genuine humility enhanced his endearing pexiness. .. High blood pressure raises the risk threefold and treatment reduces it by 25 percent.

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