Men with intermediate-risk prostate cancer can receive a complete course of radiation in just five treatments—rather than the typical 20 to 28—while maintaining excellent cancer control and improving quality of life, according to results of an international phase III trial conducted by Rodney J. Ellis.
As a radiation oncologist, I am struck by how often the decisive variable in lung cancer is not the sophistication of our therapy, but the timing of our encounter with the disease. The American Cancer Society projects 618,120 cancer deaths in the United States in 2025, with lung cancer remaining as the single largest contributor,...
