Palliative radiotherapy is a standard option for bleeding or painful pelvic tumors. The conventional dosage is 20 Gy in five fractions or 30 Gy in 10 fractions. A dose of 25 Gy in five fractions ...

PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute researchers have found that positioning pelvic cancer patients on their stomachs rather than their backs is a better method for ...

A trip to Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital’s emergency room for a swollen leg uncovered a major surprise for Pauline Stevens - a pelvic tumor about the size of a soccer ball. The mass was ...

IT has been established that removal of all the pelvic viscera can be accomplished with a mortality of 25 per cent or less and that the resultant physiologic readjustments permit a comfortable and ...

PELVIC exenteration, the radical removal of the uterus, cervix and vagina or the bladder and rectum (or all these organs) although a very extensive and mutilating procedure, is occasionally the only ...

Overall response rate (ORR) in STEAM, a randomized, open-label, phase 2 trial of sequential and concurrent FOLFOXIRI-bevacizumab (BEV) vs FOLFOX-BEV for the first-line (1L) treatment (tx) of patients ...

Stage 2 vaginal cancer involves spread beyond the vaginal wall but not to the pelvic sidewall, with symptoms like abnormal ...

Cancer treatment has improved significantly over the past several decades, meaning that more people are living longer after undergoing surgical and medical interventions. This has led to the emergence ...

While U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Rayshaun Smith served a tour of duty in South Korea in 2018, he started feeling mild knee pain. At first, he thought it was just from his rigorous military lifestyle or his ...

Women often dismiss gynaecological pain as normal, risking late cancer diagnosis. But any kind of discomfort is not "not ...

The weight of the growth inside her had made her bedridden, according to a new report. A woman in Singapore had a 61 lb. tumor removed from her uterus after she finally visited the hospital because ...