| IMRT spares bladder in prostate radiation
BOSTON, Oct. 11 Intensity modulated radiation therapy, or IMRT, spares the bladder more from direct radiation compared to 3-D conformal proton therapy, a U.S. study found.
The Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Radiation Oncology and Harvard Medical School, both in Boston, jointly conducted the study to determine the comparative benefits and drawbacks of IMRT versus 3D-CPT as treatments for patients with prostate cancer and to determine whether specific cases should be assigned to one treatment method over the other.
"This study was important because it reassures a patient with prostate cancer that the methods that are available at his local hospital may, in many cases, be as good as those that are currently only available in a limited number of centers," study author Dr.
Prostate Cancer Radiotherapy Won't Affect Sexual Function
MONDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) High-dose precision radiation therapy doesn't harm the sexual function of prostate cancer patients, U.S. researchers say. A team at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia tracked 155 men with intermediate- to high-risk prostate cancer who underwent intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), a technique that more precisely targets the tumor. "IMRT is revolutionizing how we treat men with prostate cancer, because it improves our ability to avoid normal tissue. As a result, more radiation dose can be delivered to the prostate by increasing the amount of radiation each day. Increasing the radiation used each day is particularly attractive, because it also shortens the treatment time by several days," study lead author Dr. Mark Buyyounouski, attending physician in the radiology department at Fox Chase, said in a prepared statement.
Mismatched' Prostate Cancer Treatment Prevalent
More than a third of men with early prostate cancer who participated in a study analyzing treatment choice received therapies that might not be appropriate, based on pre-existing problems with urinary, bowel or sexual function. The prevalence of these treatment "mismatches" could reflect patient' unwillingness to discuss such problems with their physicians. The study will appear in the January 1, 2008 issue of the journal Cancer and is being released online."Prostate cancer patients experience the same fears and hard decisions as all cancer patients do, but prostate cancer treatment directly affects very personal things that most people aren't comfortable talking about - urinary, bowel and sexual function," says James Talcott, MD, SM, of the Center for Outcomes Research at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Cancer Center, who led the study.
Wellness India - The CSN People - Release Condition Specific Nutrition ...
Condition specific nutrition (CSN) is the latest and unabated trend in nutrition. A health condition often needs 40 or more nutrients in specific combinations for beneficial impact. Wellness India announces the release of CSN for 45 health conditions.
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What Thanksgiving means to me, part 2
So here's a second helping of your Thanksgiving thoughts. Memories of a mother and son: A house filled with family Thanksgiving in my memories is all about my mother. It is not because of the food she prepared, though she was a good cook. Her recipes are still among our family favorites. Nor was it because she did anything very special. Yes, the good china came out and the family silver (the only time I saw it throughout the year). It was because of her longing to make it truly a family day. My mother came from a large close-knit Irish family, the middle child of nine. Growing up in a crowded, mining-town household in Pennsylvania, she was accustomed to having many people around. One of my earliest memories is the big round table in my grandfather's kitchen, with eight chairs (10 at a pinch) around it.
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