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Therapeutics in Radiation-induced Proctopathy: A Systematic Review

Journal of Coloproctology, 2022
Malignant neoplasms are increasingly prevalent in the daily clinical practice. Up to 61% of patients with pelvic malignancies undergo pelvic radiotherapy in different doses, which may cause intestinal damage, and the rectum is the segment most frequently
Nathália Nascentes Coelho dos Santos Omer, Ivana Duval de Araujo, Geraldo Magela Gomes da Cruz, Fábio Gontijo Rodrigues   +3 more
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Radiation exposure by medical X-ray applications

GMS German Medical Science, 2022
Background: Radioactive material and ionising radiation play a central role in medical diagnostics and therapy. The benefit of ionising radiation is opposed by the risk of irreparable damage of the human organism.
Buchberger, Barbara, Scholl, Katharina, Krabbe, Laura, Spiller, Ljuba, Lux, Beate   +4 more
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Evaluating the Necessity and Radiation Risk of Brain CT Scans Requested by the Trauma Emergency Department [PDF]

Journal of Biomedical Physics and Engineering, 2023
Background: Numerous Computed Tomography (CT) scan requests for trauma patients have raised serious concern about the impacts of radiation such as radiation-induced cancers.Objective: This study aimed to evaluate the necessity rate of requested head CT ...
Hadi Moradi, Hossein Chehre, Behzad Ghaderi, Faranak Saghatchi, Masoud Najafi, Parisa Karami, Hamed Rezaeejam   +6 more
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Marginal resection and adjuvant strontium plesiotherapy in the management of feline eyelid malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumours: two cases [PDF]

, 2016
Case series summary Two cats with a marginally resected eyelid malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumour were treated with adjuvant strontium plesiotherapy a few weeks after surgery.
Berlato, D, Matas Riera, M, Rasotto, R, Serras, A R   +3 more
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Transplantable melanomas in hamsters and gerbils as models for human melanoma : sensitization in melanoma radiotherapy : from animal models to clinical trials [PDF]

, 2018
The focus of the present review is to investigate the role of melanin in the radioprotection of melanoma and attempts to sensitize tumors to radiation by inhibiting melanogenesis. Early studies showed radical scavenging, oxygen consumption and adsorption
Andrzej Słominski, Anna Brożyna, Anna Markiewicz, Bożena Romanowska-Dixon, Ewa Podgórska, Krystyna Urbańska, Martyna Elas, Martyna Śniegocka, Małgorzata Szczygieł, Michał Żmijewski, Mirosława Cichorek, Przemysław Płonka   +11 more
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Two Metachronous Neoplasms in the Radiotherapy Fields of a Young Man With Familial Adenomatous Polyposis

Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports, 2013
Background: It is recognized that various radiation-induced malignancies often follow childhood radiotherapy. Radiation-induced neoplasms have been shown to occur with increased frequency in syndromes due to mutated tumor suppressor genes. There exist no
Patrick A. Williams BS, Feriyl Bhaijee MD, Luminita Rezeanu MD, Robert D. Hamilton MD, Srinivasan Vijayakumar MD   +4 more
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Meningeoma pós-radioterapia Radiation-induced meningioma

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria, 2006
Os meningeomas são neoplasias derivadas das células aracnóideas, sendo sua origem ligada a alterações genéticas idiopáticas (deleção do braço longo do cromossomo 22), doenças predisponentes à sua formação e indução por radioterapia.
Erick de Souza Barboza, Alexandros Theodoros Panagopoulos, Carmen Lúcia Penteado Lancellotti, José Carlos Esteves Veiga   +3 more
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Intranasal melanoma treated with radiation therapy in three dogs [PDF]

, 2017
Three dogs were investigated for chronic unilateral nasal discharge. In all cases CT imaging showed an intranasal mass causing turbinate lysis and no evidence of metastasis.
Blackwood, L, Davies, O, Holmes, E, Lara-Garcia, A, Necova, S, Spencer, S, Taylor, A   +6 more
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Genetic Pathway in the Pathogenesis of Therapy-Related Myeloid Neoplasms: A Literature Review

Oncology and Therapy, 2020
Therapy-related myeloid neoplasms are a life-threatening and often fatal complication, associated with poor prognosis outcomes and with high-risk unfavorable cytogenetic abnormalities including complex karyotype. They occur after the treatment of primary
Tegenaw Tiruneh, Bamlaku Enawgaw, Elias Shiferaw   +2 more
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Radiogenic Vaginal Angiosarcoma: a Clinical Case

Креативная хирургия и онкология, 2020
Background. Vaginal sarcomas are rare malignant mesenchymal neoplasms. Incidence rate of vulvar and vaginal sarcomas ranges from 1 to 3%. Vaginal sarcomas are usually represented by leiomyosarcomas in reproductive-age women.
K. V. Menshikov, A. V. Pushkarev, A. V. Sultanbaev, V. A. Pushkarev, I. A. Sharifgaliev   +4 more
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