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Cancer Council Australia lists lung cancer as one of the five most commonly diagnosed cancers (Figure 1). It has the poorest 5-year survival cure rate in this group, of 17%.
Whether it be by chemotherapy, surgery, or radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy), there are medical and technical difficulties in treating lung cancer patients.
This series of articles briefly describe the challenges when treating lung cancer by radiation therapy. Current research and development work promises smarter and better design methods using existing modern technology.
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Lung cancer radation therapy: The basics and complexities
Targeting a moving lung tumour
New X-ray beam targeting techniques
Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy
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Lung cancer radiation therapy: The basics and complexities
Lung Cancer Radiation Therapy
The Basics and Complexities
Recent improvements in modern technology are providing the opportunity to use a higher dose with improved accuracy treatments. Modern techniques can provide higher X-ray dose to a smaller, more accurately targeted tumour in the lung, with less complications. ………Read more
Targeting a moving lung tumour
Targeting a moving lung tumour
Breathing causes organs to move
Especially when it is a lung tumour moving while the patient breathes? Often the treatment targets are small and the planned dose distributions have steep gradients with potentially very high doses delivered in a small number of treatment fractions…………..
New X-ray beam targeting techniques
Tumour tracking in real-time.
The success of Stereotactic Radiation Surgery (SRS) and Stereotactic Ablative Body Radiation Therapy (SABR) techniques depends critically on having an adequate collection and algorithmic handling of the image data describing the patient body and organ motion.
Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy
Stereotactic ablative
body radiotherapy
(SABR)
Cancer treatment typically involves systemic therapy such as chemotherapy, targeted therapy or immunotherapy, in combination with a local therapy. Local therapy such as surgery, radiation therapy or other energy ablation treatment options are used. For small tumours, stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy (SABR) is an emerging standard of care. SABR is a non-invasive local treatment for small tumours, delivered in an out-patient setting. SABR is also known as Stereotactic treatment or Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy (SBRT).
For a quick tag, click on:
Lung cancer radation therapy: The basics and complexities
Targeting a moving lung tumour
New X-ray beam targeting techniques
Stereotactic ablative body radiotherapy
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