Oncology is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer
Twenty three years old,female patient Anita presented with mass in rectum,the required treatment is radiation,chemotherapy and subsequently surgery.The said female is unmarried.The issues that needs discussion are cancer staging,cancer prognosis,quality of life issues and fertility as patient is young.This patient came to me in certain depressed state of mind with long face.Upon enquiring her name …
Monday morning, I was sitting in my clinic looking after my follow up patient.Mr.Ram was bit anxious as he was waiting for his test results, he was actually a diagnosed case of ca lung with brain metastasis. He was treated by our radiotherapy team with stereotactic radio surgery and after six weeks I told them …
Brachytherapy is a radiation therapy treatment technique which is used for controlling cancers of several sites. Its name is derived from two terms, ‘Brachy’ means short and ‘Therapy’ means treatment. In this modality, radiation source is placed at very short distance to the diseased region to damage cancer cells and destroys their ability to proliferate. …
HDR Brachytherapy in management of Cervical Cancers Read More »
Magnitude of Problem As per Globocan 2012,there were 14.1 million cancer incidence, 8.2 million cancer deaths and 32.6 million people living with cancer (within 5 years of diagnosis) in with known incidence of 1.1 million in 2015. This estimate is, however, conservative, as the real rate is at least 1.5 to 2 times higher than …
Brachytherapy is a radiation therapy treatment technique which is used for controlling cancers of several sites. Its name is derived from two terms, ‘Brachy’ means short and ‘Therapy’ means treatment. In this modality, radiation source is placed at very short distance to the diseased region to damage cancer cells and destroys their ability to proliferate. …
Stereotactic radiosurgery is the latest technique of radiotherapy in which high dose of radiation is focused on tumor and simultaneously saving the adjacent healthy tissue. Stereotaxy word is originated from Greek and Latin language that means touching the tumor in space. To treat any tumor in body space, we require its three-dimensional coordinates.This coordinate system …