DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
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Medical Case Studies
Brain irradiation
Brain metastasis
A brain metastasis is a cancer that has metastasized (spread) to the brain from another location in the body. Brain metastases are the most common cause of intracranial mass lesions, and up to 45% of cancer patients eventually develop brain metastases during the course of their illness, with 98,000 to 170,000 new cases diagnosed each year in the US. As primary cancer treatments such as surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy have become more effective in the past few decades, people with cancer are living longer after initial treatment than ever before...
Brain irradiation - List of case studies
- Metastatic Heteroplasia of the Lung
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70-year-old male underwent epileptic seizures. A brain CAT scan showed a space occupying lesion with surrounding edema in his ... transbronchial biopsy. The patient was treated by brain irradiation. questions: ...
- Operated breast cancer with metastases
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metabolic activity. 3 months later, a MRI of the brain and encephalic trunk was carried out to compare it to the previous ... chemotherapy by six cycles of the CMF regimen and breast irradiation. Two years later, her disease recurred locally. A repeated ...
- Treatments
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therapy Adjuvant hormonotherapy Adjuvant irradiation Adjuvant irradiation program Adjuvant medical treatment ... injection Brachitherapy Brachytherapy Brain irradiation Breg-type lumbar orthopaedic brace Brodstrum ...
- 3-year old boy with Medulloblastoma
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of a pupil abnormality and his unsteady gait. A brain MRI was performed, which showed a “brain mass”. Consequently, ... site of the primary tumor and in the csf AND to delay irradiation therapy . The use of high dose chemotherapy, that may cause ...