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To report findings observed in fellow eyes during prospective follow-up of patients with unilateral choroidal melanoma after treatment with standard enucleation or 1 of 2 radiotherapy methods, either iodine 125 (I125) brachytherapy or pre-enucleation external radiation, in order to document long-term outcomes and to identify any adverse effect of radiotherapy on the contralateral eye.
In fact, our radiotherapy methods varied considerably during the period of this study.
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It is likely to become the preferred radiotherapy method for most childhood cancers, as the unwanted exposure to radiation of healthy tissue is much reduced and so the risk of second cancers later in life is also much reduced.
The authors report a much higher rate of grade 3 toxicity of the radiochemotherapy in comparison to their adjuvant radiotherapy method.
Questions pertaining to treatment of cervical cancer are focused mainly on chemotherapy regimens, so there is a tendency to ignore the radiotherapy method.
Now that concurrent treatment with cisplatin-based chemotherapy and radiotherapy is the standard treatment for locally advanced cervical cancer, the main issue in treatment is how chemotherapy is used, not much attention is given to the radiotherapy method.
The Kaplan Meier LRFS curves were plotted and the log-rank test was calculated, using double stratification for the radiotherapy method and for each one of the assessed histological and molecular variables.
Based on this clinical information and with the objective of making access to radiotherapy easier, partial-breast irradiation methods (e.g., brachytherapy, external radiotherapy, intraoperative radiotherapy) have been developed over the last 20 years.
Hence, the need to manage patient comfort (not to mention economic considerations), partial and accelerated breast irradiation methods (e.g., brachytherapy, external radiotherapy, intraoperative radiotherapy) have been developed.
The usefulness of IORT should be tested again in a randomized clinical trial after the establishment of radiotherapy planning methods for IORT and a method to reproduce the planned setting in the linac room.
Radiotherapy delivery methods were used in only a small number of combinations across the trial centres and associations were present between the beam modification and treatment verification methods.
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