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The role of adjuvant chemotherapy and radiotherapy for cholangiocarcinoma

Best Practice & Research Clinical Gastroenterology, 2015
Cholangiocarcinomas are rare cancers arising from the epithelia of the biliary tract. The only prospect of curative therapy is with surgery. However, relapse rates are high with five-year survival rates typically around 20-30%. Involved resection margins and spread to local lymph nodes are associated with a higher risk of relapse.
Juan W. Valle, Juan W. Valle, Matthew Howell   +2 more
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Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Melanoma

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, 1989
At the 31st annual meeting of the American Society for Head and Neck Surgery, held in San Francisco, Calif, April 5 and 6, 1989, Drs Scott Stern and James Suen, Little Rock, Ark, reported a retrospective study of the use of adjuvant radiotherapy in 30 patients with mucosal and advanced or recurrent cutaneous head and neck melanoma.
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Adjuvant radiotherapy in resectable pancreatic carcinoma

European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO), 2002
Pancreatic cancer is a near fatal disease. External beam radiotherapy and intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT) has been proposed with the aim to improve clinical outcome in resectable tumors. The aim of this study is to assess the feasibility and outcome in patients with cT1-3 pancreatic cancer, treated with surgery, external beam radiotherapy and ...
Morganti, A G, Valentini, V, Macchia, G, Alfieri, S, Trodella, L, Brizi, M G, Bossola, M, Ziccarelli, L, Doglietto, G B, Cellini, N   +9 more
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Mucoepidermoid Carcinoma of the Parotid: Very Close Margins and Adjuvant Radiotherapy

ORL, 2019
Background/Aims: The importance of adjuvant radiotherapy in patients with close margin resections for mucoepidermoid carcinoma of the parotid gland remains unclear.
J. Zenga, Zizi Yu, Anuraag S. Parikh, Jenny X. Chen, D. Lin, K. Emerick, W. Faquin, M. Varvares, D. Deschler   +8 more
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Adjuvant Radiotherapy After Keloid Excision: Preliminary Experience in Taiwan

Annals of Plastic Surgery, 2019
Background Surgical excision with adjuvant radiotherapy has gained attention as an effective treatment of keloid. The Asian population is challenged with a high incidence of keloid occurrence with a specific genetic predominance.
W. Hsueh, Kuo-Shu Hung, Yu-Chen Chen, Yen-Tsung Huang, C. Hsu, R. Ogawa, Yuan-Yu Hsueh   +6 more
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Adjuvant chemo-radiotherapy in ampullary cancers

European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO), 2005
Patterns of failure following surgical treatment of ampullary cancers indicate that up to 45% of patients develop loco-regional recurrence. The effect of adjuvant chemo-radiotherapy on survival and loco-regional control is not yet established in this malignancy.From January 1989 to December 2000, 113 patients underwent pancreatico-duodenectomy for ...
Palat Balachandran, Neeraj Rastogi, Vinay K. Kapoor, K. Dimri, Sadiq S. Sikora, Ashok Kumar, Rajan Saxena   +6 more
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INDICATIONS FOR ADJUVANT RADIOTHERAPY IN ENDOMETRIAL CARCINOMA

Hematology/Oncology Clinics of North America, 1999
This article examines the impact of prognostic factors, adjuvant therapy, and randomized trials on the overall survival of patients with endometrial cancer. The potential role of radiation therapy as an adjuvant therapy, as well as the role of lymph node dissection, in the treatment of endometrial carcinomas is reviewed.
Margareta Fredstorp, Thomas Högberg, Anuja Jhingran   +2 more
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Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1976
DESPITE the diverse modifications of the classical Halsted mastectomy, which have been popularized in the past several decades, the adherents to the use of postoperative irradiation, particularly in patients found to have had cancerous axillary nodes at surgery, have remained steadfast.
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Melatonin as an adjuvant in radiotherapy for radioprotection and radiosensitization

Clinical and Translational Oncology, 2018
It is estimated that more than half of cancer patients undergo radiotherapy during the course of their treatment. Despite its beneficial therapeutic effects on tumor cells, exposure to high doses of ionizing radiation (IR) is associated with several side effects.
Elahe Motevaseli, Ensieh Salehi, Ahmed Eleojo Musa, Nasser Hashemi Goradel, Keywan Mortezaee, Maryam Shabani Nashtaei, Neda Khanlarkhani, Bagher Farhood, Hanifeh Mirtavoos-Mahyari, Masoud Najafi, Dheyauldeen Shabeeb, Dheyauldeen Shabeeb   +11 more
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Eye-Preserving Surgery Followed by Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Lacrimal Gland Carcinoma: Outcomes in 37 Patients.

Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2018
PURPOSE To describe the clinical outcomes of eye-preserving surgery followed by adjuvant radiotherapy in patients with lacrimal gland carcinoma. METHODS Thirty-seven patients with lacrimal gland carcinoma who underwent eye-preserving surgery were ...
K. Woo, O. Sagiv, Jisang Han, S. Frank, Yoon-Duck Kim, B. Esmaeli   +5 more
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