Bladder Cancer

Studies by J. Thariat and co-authors describe new findings in bladder cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 24th, 2010

According to recent research from Nice, France, "CyberKnife ® stereotactic body radiation therapy is used to treat extracranial tumour sites that move with respiration. It has also been employed for the successful treatment of prostate cancer, using the image-tracking CyberKnife H system to compensate for intrafraction movements resulting from peristaltic motion and bladder filling."

"Large sporadic motions can be compensated for using an online target motion monitoring and cybernetic correction strategy. Radio-opaque gold markers can be implanted in the bladder during transurethral resection and used for online image-tracking during radiation to compensate for...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-08-24)

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