Targeting Cancer – Radiation Therapy Treatment Process
This video explains the radiation therapy treatment process
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Virtual Health Professional Education evening
Targeting Cancer has a put together a virtual GP education evening video to allow the busy GP to enhance their knowledge about modern radiation therapy. We encourage GPs and other health care professionals to watch all the videos to gain a better understanding of common cancer management issues.
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Mortality Among men with Advanced Prostate Cancer Excluded from the ProtecT Trial.
Early detection and treatment of asymptomatic men with advanced and high-risk prostate cancer may improve survival rates.
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Reported Outcomes after Monitoring, Surgery, or Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer.
Robust data on patient-reported outcome measures comparing treatments for clinically localised prostate cancer are lacking. We investigated the effects of active monitoring, radical prostatectomy, and radical radiotherapy with hormones on patientreported outcomes.
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10-Year Outcomes after Monitoring, Surgery, or Radiotherapy for Localized Prostate Cancer
This study compared active monitoring, radical prostatectomy, and external-beam radiotherapy for the treatment of clinically localised prostate cancer.
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The myths that make cancer patients shun radiotherapy
Cancer patients are turning down radiation therapy because of misplaced fears about it being toxic or causing other cancers, an Australian survey reveals.
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The scandal of prostate cancer management in Australia
Many Australian men are not having their options for treatment of early prostate cancer properly explained.
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Stage 1B cervix cancer with nodal involvement treated with primary surgery or primary radiotherapy: Patterns of failure and outcomes in a contemporary population.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate patterns of failure, overall survival (OS), disease-free survival (DFS), prognostic factors and late toxicities in node positive International Federation of Gynaecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) stage IB cervix cancer treated with curative intent.
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Predictors and rate of adjuvant radiation therapy following radical prostatectomy: A report from the Prostate Cancer Registry.
Long-term data from three randomised trials have demonstrated that adjuvant radiation therapy (ART) reduces the rate of biochemical failure in high-risk men following radical prostatectomy (RP). One of these trials has shown a survival advantage. We investigated the rate of ART in Victoria and ...
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