This approach, termed diathermy, is also being explored as a means of inducing hyperthermia in tumour tissue as an adjunct to radiation therapy (or chemotherapy) in the treatment of certain types of cancer.
The rationale and eventually the use of hyperthermia as adjunct to radiation therapy and chemotherapy for human cancers have been in practice for decades.
However, ADT is becoming more commonly used in earlier stages of the disease, particularly as an adjunct to radiation therapy in high-risk localised or locally advanced disease.
53, 63, 64 One reviewer predicts that 6-month triptorelin pamoate will prove a valuable adjunct to radiation therapy and chemotherapy because it possesses similar efficacy, but fewer side effects, than adjunctive therapies now commonly available.
Breast carcinoma, malignant melanoma and squamous cell carcinoma are probably, from a thermobiological point of view, equally good candidates for clinical trial aimed at studying the potential usefulness of hyperthermia as an adjunct to radiation therapy and/or chemotherapy.
W. somnifera extract in various forms has been used as an adaptogen, aphrodisiac, liver tonic, anti-inflammatory agent, hepatoprotectant, astringent, immune booster [ 1], immunomodulator [ 2] and more recently to treat Alzheimer's disease [ 3], neurodegenerative disorders and stress [ 4] and also as an adjunct to chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy [ 5, 6].
To determine the effect of intraarterial cytoreductive chemotherapy (IACC) as an adjunct to conventional surgery and radiation therapy for lacrimal gland adenoid cystic carcinoma (ACC).
Radiation therapy is an important adjunct to breast-conserving surgery, but the diagnosis of recurrent/de novo carcinoma in a background of radiation atypia can be difficult, especially on small biopsies.
In the event of incomplete surgical excision or a non-resectable tumor, radiation therapy (RT) may be used as an adjunct local therapy, and in the face of multicentric, metastatic, or aggressive MCT, postoperative chemotherapy is commonly employed.
In our experience, PET-CT has been a useful adjunct to the qualitative assessment of tumor response to chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or radiofrequency ablation and to the assessment of residual tumor in the surgical bed after resection [11].
For Stage-II (invasion through the muscularis propria of the rectal wall) or Stage-III rectal cancer (metastases to regional lymph nodes), radiation therapy is a useful pre-operative or postoperative adjunct and is also used in combination with chemotherapy.
