DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
Radiation therapy (to the spine)
Radiation therapy
Radiation therapy, radiation oncology, or radiotherapy, sometimes abbreviated to XRT, is the medical use of ionizing radiation, generally as part of cancer treatment to control malignant cells. Radiation therapy is commonly applied to the cancerous tumor because of its ability to control cell growth. Ionizing radiation works by damaging the DNA of exposed tissue, furthermore, it is believed that cancerous cells may be more susceptible to death by this process as many have turned off their DNA repair machinery during the process of becoming cancerous...
Radiation therapy (to the spine) - List of case studies
- Relapse of Chondrosarcoma of Cervical Spine
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hemivertebrectomy, and adjuvant fractionated proton beam radiation therapy. questions: ...
- Trigeminal Neuralgia
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1) What therapy do you suggest? 2) Is ... is gamma knife surgery . In this procedure a beam of radiation is focused at the trigeminal roots at the posterior fossa . ...
- Diffuse Intra-Axial expansive Lesion of the Enchephalic Trunk not surgically investigated _3
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of having reduced at the brainstem. The expert agrees that radiation to the spine that the child started receiving is appropriate, and ... in his physical condition by the end of radiation therapy to the brain, which was administered from 11/2008 until 01/2009, but ...
- Demyelinizing Disease
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suffers from progressive tetraparesis, more pronounced in the lower extremities. Her treatment included mitoxantrone and Interferon-beta ... of 32 hemorrhoidectomy. In 2004 acute backache with radiation to both lower limbs pharmacologically treated with NSAIDs and ... in MS ). I recommend to give the patient pulse therapy with intra venous high dose steroids - 1 gram of ...
- Low back pain due to spondylosis and degenerative disc disease
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1) Therapy suggested? 2) Activities that can be carried out and that can’t ... the axial low back pain increased with lower extremities radiation, parasthesias and tingling . The pain is constant, fluctuating at ...
- Diffuse Intra-Axial expansive Lesion of the Enchephalic Trunk
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started an experimental treatment with Nimotuzumab, and Radiation therapy is planned to continue with Nimotuzumab. ...
- Treatments
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