Early-stage lung ... the tumor before operating. This is known as neoadjuvant chemotherapy and isn't usually necessary for early-stage cancer. Radiation therapy may also be used after surgery ...

Inoperable patients are inoperable because either the cancer is more advanced or the patient has other conditions where patient cannot have a decent quality of life after the surgery. And other ...

CURE recently spoke with Dr. Laura Dawson, a professor and chair of the department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Toronto, and a practicing radiation oncologist in the Radiation Medicine ...

Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) also known as stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) is a precise, painless, non-invasive radiation treatment that utilizes very accurately targeted, large ...

This treatment does not kill cancer cells right away, it takes days or weeks of treatment before DNA is damaged ... benefits," said Dr Sanjay. SBRT is a radiation therapy that uses many energy ...

You may have radiation therapy on its own. Or, you may have it before ... early-stage breast cancer after a lumpectomy. This method uses a precise, high-dose form of radiation therapy called ...