Role of Natural Radiosensitizers and Cancer Cell Radioresistance: An Update by Arif Malik, Misbah Sultana, Aamer Qazi, Mahmood Husain Qazi, Gulshan Parveen, Sulayman Waquar, Abdul Basit Ashraf, Mahmood Rasool

“…Cancer stem cells are thought to be resistant to conventional therapy like chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Radiation therapy and chemotherapy damage carcinomic DNA cells. …”
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Single Solitary Fibrous Tumor Brain Metastasis in a Patient with Simultaneous Adenocarcinoma of the Lung: Case Report and Review of the Literature by Erin A. Kaya, Jonathan D. Carlson, Cheddhi J. Thomas, Aaron E. Wagner, Robert K. Fairbanks, Wayne T. Lamoreaux, Christopher M. Lee

“…Surgical resection followed by adjuvant Gamma Knife radiation therapy to the surgical bed appears to be a safe option for local treatment of SFT in select patients. …”
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Adjuvant Radiochemotherapy with a 23-Month Overall Survival Time in a Patient after a Surgery due to Splenic Hemangiosarcoma Rupture: A Case Report with the Literature Review by M. Bilski, D. Surdyka, I. Paśnik, M. Bilska, P. Cisek, P. Korona, J. Szumiło, L. Grzybowska-Szatkowska

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Surgical resection, radiotherapy and percutaneous thermal ablation for treatment of stage 1 non-small cell lung cancer: protocol for a systematic review and network meta-analysis by Arun Chockalingam, Menelaos Konstantinidis, Brandon Koo, John Timothy Moon, Andrew Tran, Sahar Nourouzpour, Emily Lawson, Kathleen Fox, Peiman Habibollahi, Bruno Odisio, Mohammed Loya, Ali Bassir, Nariman Nezami

“…We will conduct a meta-analysis, reviewing literature investigating these therapies in adult patients diagnosed with stage 1 NSCLC, with neither hilar nor mediastinal nodal involvement, confirmed either through cytology or histology regardless of type.Methods and analysis We will search electronic databases (MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, Scopus, ClinicalTrials.gov, Cochrane) from their inception to January 2021 to identify randomised controlled trials (RCTs), cluster RCTs and cohort studies comparing survival and clinical outcomes between any two interventions (lobectomy, wedge resection, video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery/robot-assisted thoracoscopic surgery, radiofrequency ablation, microwave ablation, cryoablation and consolidated radiation therapies (external beam radiation therapy, stereotactic body radiation therapy, and 3D conformal radiation therapy). …”
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Topical Mitomycin C and Radiation Induce Conjunctival DNA-Polyploidy by Olaf Cartsburg, Christopher Kallen, Jost Hillenkamp, Rainer Sundmacher, Natalia Pomjanski, Alfred Böcking

“…The patients were treated with MMC‐drops (0.02% or 0.04%) alone (n=12), with radiation therapy (n=3) or both (n=4). At first, the obtained brush smears were evaluated by cytology. …”
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Reconstruction of radiation-induced damage in patients with facial hemangiomas using free anterolateral thigh flap by Trần Thiết Sơn, Phan Tuấn Nghĩa, Nguyễn Hữu Trọng, Phạm Thị Việt Dung, Tạ Thị Hồng Thuý, Christopher Runyan

“…Objective: Radiation therapy to treat hemangiomas is an old method that is no longer used due to its severe side effects. …”
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Prognostic Factors and Nomogram for Malignant Brainstem Ependymoma: A Population‐Based Retrospective Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Database Analysis by Xiaoyu Ji, Siyuan Yang, Dejing Cheng, Wenbo Zhao, Xuebo Sun, Fang Su

“…Patients with GTR combined radiation therapy have improved overall survival than patient without or with GTR or radiation therapy only (p < 0.0001). …”
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CD7-Positive Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Presenting as an Intranasal Tumor by Kazuaki Teshima, Masaaki Kume, Yasushi Kawaharada, Takashi Saito, Ko Abe, Sho Ikeda, Hideaki Ohyagi, Megumi Zuguchi, Masashi Zuguchi, Yosuke Kubota, Yoshitaka Enomoto, Masahito Miura, Satsuki Takahashi, Masahiro Saito, Ken Saito, Naoto Takahashi

“…The patient received 6 cycles of R-CHOP plus local radiation therapy because positron emission tomography-computed tomography after R-CHOP revealed an intranasal lesion. …”
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Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors in Children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1 by Apostolos Pourtsidis, Dimitrios Doganis, Margarita Baka, Despina Bouhoutsou, Maria Varvoutsi, Maria Synodinou, Panagiota Giamarelou, Helen Kosmidis

“…The usefulness of radiation therapy in MPNSTs is not determined although all patients will receive radiation therapy at some stage of the disease. …”
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Controversies in the Management of Endometrial Carcinoma: An Update by Mohamed K. Mehasseb, John A. Latimer

“…Current controversies focus on screening and early detection, the extent of nodal surgery, and the changing roles of radiation therapy and chemotherapy and will be discussed in this paper.…”
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Enhanced Morbidity of Pectoralis Major Myocutaneous Flap Used for Salvage after Previously Failed Oncological Treatment and Unsuccessful Reconstructive Head and Neck Surgery by Christiana Maria Ribeiro Salles Vanni, Leandro Luongo de Matos, Mário Paulo Faro Junior, Jossi Ledo Kanda, Cláudio Roberto Cernea, Lenine Garcia Brandão, Fábio Roberto Pinto

“…Older patients, with hypopharyngeal defects and submitted to previous surgery plus radiation therapy, presented a higher risk of complications and reconstruction failure with PMMF.…”
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Long-Term Survival in a Patient with Multiple Brain Metastases from Small-Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Gamma Knife Radiosurgery on Four Occasions: A Case Report by Ameer L. Elaimy, Sudheer R. Thumma, Andrew F. Lamm, Alexander R. Mackay, Wayne T. Lamoreaux, Robert K. Fairbanks, John J. Demakas, Barton S. Cooke, Christopher M. Lee

“…The treatment of these lesions is challenging and often includes a multimodality management approach with whole-brain radiation therapy, stereotactic radiosurgery, and neurosurgery options. …”
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Pediatric pancreatic acinar cell carcinoma with a non-canonical BRAF-KMT2C fusion and a classic SND1-BRAF fusion: a case report and literature review by Yaqin Wang, Jiasi Zhang, Dimin Nie, Ai Zhang, Qun Hu, Aiguo Liu

“…The patient underwent surgical resection through a Whipple operation followed by six cycles of mFOLIRINOX chemotherapy and radiation therapy, achieving a favorable outcome up to now. …”
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Recurrent Syncope in a Cancer Patient: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Jyoti Sharma, Anne H. Dougherty

“…A 59-year-old male with invasive squamous cell carcinoma of the left preauricular region, treated with several chemotherapy regimens and radiation therapy, was admitted for recurrent syncopal episodes. …”
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PPARs in Irradiation-Induced Gastrointestinal Toxicity by Christine Linard, Maâmar Souidi

“…The use of radiation therapy to treat cancer inevitably involves exposure of normal tissues. …”
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Epidemiological Study of Uveal Melanoma from US Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (2010–2015) by Yufeng Xu, Lixia Lou, Yijie Wang, Qi Miao, Kai Jin, Menglu Chen, Juan Ye

“…Determinants of survival included age at diagnosis, AJCC stage, and radiation therapy.…”
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Trimodal organ‑preserving treatment of muscle‑invasive bladder cancer by A. V. Troianov, I. O. Dementev, I. N. Zaborsky, V. S. Chaykov, O. B. Karyakin, Yu. V. Gumenetskaya

“…The modern approach to trimodal therapy (TMT) is as follows: complete transurethral resection of the bladder (TURB), neoadjuvant or adjuvant chemotherapy, subsequent assessment of the response to treatment (re‑staging with TURB) should be performed; with a complete pathomorphological response, a course of remote radiation therapy up to TFD 60–66 Gy in the case of traditional fractionation (focal radiation therapy and the use of hypofractionation modes are also possible), using modern irradiation technologies (IGRT, IMRT). …”
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Primary Breast Anaplastic Large-Cell Lymphoma by Min-Hong Wang, Hui-Hua Hsiao

“…The patient received brentuximab vedotin in combination with cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and prednisone (CHP) chemotherapy, as well as involved site radiation therapy (ISRT). The following image showed almost complete remission.…”
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Primary Cutaneous Mantle Cell Lymphoma: A Case Report by L. D. Mazzuoccolo, G. A. Castro Perez, I. Sorin, A. I. Bravo

“…Overexpression of cyclin D1 is pathognomonic of this condition, and surgery and radiation therapy are the most common therapeutic options. …”
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Ductal Carcinoma In Situ: What the Pathologist Needs to Know and Why by Anita Bane

“…It is considered a pre-cursor lesion for invasive breast cancer and when identified patients are treated with some combination of surgery, +/− radiation therapy, and +/adjuvant tamoxifen. However, no good biomarkers exist that can predict with accuracy those cases of DCIS destined to progress to invasive disease or once treated those patients that are likely to suffer a recurrence; thus, in the era of screening mammography it seems likely that many patients with DCIS are overtreated. …”
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