When using the NovoTTF-100A System, a health care professional places electrodes on the surface of the patient's scalp to deliver low-intensity, changing electrical fields called "tumor treatment fields" (TTFs) to the tumor site.
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"In cancer, we create free radical damage to tumor cells with treatment, and we want that, but antioxidants quench this damage, " explains Dr. Brian Lawenda, the clinical director of radiation oncology at the Naval Medical Center, in San Diego, California.
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The usual treatment for such a tumor includes combinations of radiation and chemotherapy, but the precise treatment for Kennedy will be determined after further tests and discussion among his physicians, doctors said.
In the patients who responded to the treatment, the tumor shrinkage persisted for at least six months.
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Despite being told there was a 5% chance that chemotherapy would affect a tumor in the trachea, the tumor has become softer since treatment and has moved away from the thyroid gland, which makes it easier to remove surgically.
Similar devices could be implanted near a tumor to administer a multidrug cancer treatment, custom-tailored for the patient's particular disease.
Chavez shocked his country and the world recently when he announced that he was in Cuba receiving treatment for a cancerous tumor.
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Despite Shona Holmes' horror story about her inability to get timely treatment for a brain tumor, Canadian officials and doctors insist most life-threatening cases are treated quickly.
David Schenkein , head of clinical oncology at Millennium, says 85% of these patients are now stable or better, and 11% of them had a 90% reduction in their tumor protein levels after only some treatment.
Abbott hopes eventually to make a test that doctors could use to detect the cancer's return earlier so treatment can begin when the new tumor is still curable.
Phyllodes tumor is not very responsive to chemotherapy or radiation treatment.
It certainly seems worth bringing up this research and asking if Metformin should be added to your treatment regimen in hopes it would slow tumor growth.
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More than a decade after the tumor was discovered, 5.8 percent of the men who received surgery had died from prostate cancer or its treatment, compared to 8.4 percent of patients where doctors just kept an eye on the tumor.
The abdominal tumor was surgically removed, but doctors at Rigshospitalet in Copenhagen had no treatment for his other tumors.
The new brain cancer studies tested it as initial treatment for glioblastoma, the most common and deadly type of tumor.
She can pinpoint with uncanny precision where a tumor will grow months ahead of time and predict how long a patient is likely to live under various treatment scenarios.
Someday the ability to measure the level of stem cells in a tumor could lead to new prognostic tests that predict when a cancer is likely to accelerate, helping doctors customize treatment.
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