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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"radiation oncology"”.
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Influential Factors and Predicting Dose Delivery Accuracy for Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core’s Phantom Program using Machine Learning
<p>IROC’s mission is to help ensure consistent and comparable, high-quality radiotherapy across clinics that participate in national clinical trials. To obtain this mission, IROC’s phantom program provides a third-party end-to-end check of the clinical workflow of a patient receiving radiotherapy. …
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Brachytherapy and endoresection in the treatment of choroidal melanoma a review of patients treated in South Africa
… 1) A database collected by the department of Radiation Oncology at Groote Schuur Hospital; 2) Private physicians responsible for patient follow-up following brachytherapy; 3) Private physicians responsible for endoresection surgery and patient follow-up. To date there has been limited …
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A study to investigate the role of P27 and Cyclin E immunoexpression as a prognostic factor in early breast carcinoma
… from patient folders in the Department of Radiation Oncology.
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Advanced Cancer Patients' Perspectives on a Video Decision Support Aid used to Enhance Goals of Care Discussions
… with 14 participants from an Outpatient Radiation Oncology Bone Metastases Clinic. Extended Elaboration Likelihood Model was the conceptual framework used to guide data analyses. Participants found the video scenarios made the GOC framework more personally relevant. They were able to …
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Designing an experiment to study absorption vs. dose for feedback enabled radiation therapy
In the field of radiation oncology, while there are simulations and devices that allow users to be relatively confident that radiation to the tumor and sparing of healthy tissue is being maximized, the inability to reliably measure and control the dose during radiation treatment is a major source …
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Cancer Diagnosis During Pregnancy: Evaluating The Challenges Faced By Oncologists
… a multidisciplinary approach, involving medical oncology, surgical oncology, radiation oncology, radiology, and a maternal fetal medicine specialist. In spite of this consensus, there is not a standardized approach for treating cancer in women diagnosed during pregnancy. Due to the relative …
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A Human-Centered Framework for Oncological Healthcare System Modeling Applied to Mobile Radiation Delivery
… we applied it to the implementation of mobile radiation oncology in a rural setting"-- Abstract, p. iii</p>
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Postradiation sarcomas
… Schuur therefore sets out to review cases of postradiation sarcomas, including malignant mixed mullerian tumors (MMMT), presenting to the Radiation Oncology Departments of Groote Schuur Hospital and the affiliated hospitals (Frere Hospital, East London and Provincial Hospital, Port Elizabeth) or …
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The role of Technetium-99m Sestamibi scintimammography to evaluate palpable breast lesions : a comparison with mammography and histological results
… of the Departments of Surgery, Radiology and Radiation Oncology. The work was done in three parts. The literature showed somewhat lengthy imaging procedure for scintimammography which were not whole suitable to the setting of the Combined Breast Clinic. Initially a Pilot Study was conducted to …
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Predicting the severity of radiation skin reactions in women with breast cancer
… that variations in patients' tissue reactions to radiation may be related to Individual patient characteristics. Before health care providers can intervene to prevent or minimise skin reactions, a clinical model that helps predict which patients will experience more skin reactions is needed. The …
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Evaluation of prognostic risk factors at diagnosis and treatment outcomes in adult patients with early-stage hodgkin lymphoma in Cape Town, South Africa
… cHL from 2010 to 2022, at Groote Schuur Hospital Radiation Oncology and Clinical Haematology Units. NCCN unfavourable risk factors assessed were mediastinal mass ratio, presence of bulky disease, B-symptoms, number of nodal regions involved and erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Patients were divided …
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Multi-modal molecular imaging of radiation therapy response in the tumour vascular microenvironment
Radiation therapy is recognised globally as a mainstay of treatment in most solid tumours and is essential in both curative and palliative settings. The use of ionising radiation is frequently combined with surgery, either preoperatively or postoperatively, as well as with systemic chemotherapy. …
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Prevention of Radiation-Induced Skin Reactions in Breast Cancer External Irradiation
Radiation dermatitis is a common side effect of external beam radiation therapy. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of applying an aloe vera based skin gel to the target area skin in preventing the development of radiation dermatitis to postlumpectomy/ mastectomy patients …
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Development and Implementation of An Anthropomorphic Pediatric Spine Phantom For The Assessment of Craniospinal Irradiation Procedures In Proton Therapy
… pediatric patients, as it reduces the radiation side effects that can occur. The purpose of this study is to design an anthropomorphic pediatric spine phantom for use in the evaluation of proton therapy facilities for clinical trial participation by the Imaging and Radiation Oncology …
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Development and Implementation of An Anthropomorphic Head & Neck Phantom For The Assessment of Proton Therapy Treatment Procedures
… grown rapidly. One of the main goals of modern radiation therapy is to deliver a high dose to the planning target volume (PTV) with minimal exposure and damage to the surrounding healthy tissue. Protons offer a unique advantage over photon radiotherapy in that they deposit dose over a finite …
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Quantitative clinical photography for managing the quality of life concerns arising from appearance change resulting from breast cancer and its treatment
… in the areas of clinical photography to improve radiation oncology decision making, breast reconstruction surgical decision making, and survivorship needs assessment. The studies presented in this dissertation lay the groundwork for many exciting future endeavors to continue to utilize clinical …
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The Diagnosis Narratives & The Healing Ritual
… clinics, related disciplines of urogynecologic oncology and radiation oncology. The majority of the data was obtained using participant observation. Analysis was accomplished by sorting the data using Atlas ti v6.2 and generating themes by codes. These themes were then re-examined using the …
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Identifying Treatment Planning System Errors In Iroc-Houston Head and Neck Phantom Irradiations
… large numbers of cancer patients receiving radiation therapy. Using an independent recalculation system, the Imaging and Radiation Oncology Core-Houston (IROC-H) can identify institutions that have not sufficiently modelled their linear accelerators in their TPS model. Linear accelerator …
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Increasing staff comfort in performing conscious sedation during brachytherapy : a teaching quality improvement project
… new airway equipment, increase the confidence of radiation oncology nursing staff while performing brachytherapy?" Methods: The intervention proposed was to provide a lecture and simulation workshop for the CC staff. This took place in small groups in the actual procedure room. Topics covered …
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