While standard brachytherapy can be highly effective for smaller cervical tumours, interstitial brachytherapy has more impact ...

“Say back then, you had a stage IIIb cervical cancer. With external radiation alone, followed by brachytherapy internally, the cure rate for something like that would have been maybe 50 or 60% ...

The family of a mother who died from cervical cancer after twice being wrongly told she had negative results have been ...

UPMC Hillman Cancer Center in central Pennsylvania has approximately 40,000 patient visits for medical oncology and infusion ...

The addition of pembrolizumab to chemoradiotherapy improved survival outcomes for women with high-risk, locally advanced cervical cancer, according to data presented at Society of Gynecologic Oncology ...

Brachytherapy (Internal radiation) delivers high dose radiation directly to the site of the primary. In cases of early cervical cancer, radiation therapy is found to be as effective as surgery ...

Concurrent radiotherapy is standard of care for women with locally advanced cervical cancer, according to ... followed by brachytherapy. PFS served as the primary endpoint. Secondary endpoints ...

So we get seeds, in our case Iodine-125, we inject them into the prostate and this cures the patient of the cancer," says Prof Peter Mungai Ngugi a Urologist at Nairobi Hospital. Brachytherapy is ...

35 year old Millicent Kagonga, a survivor of cervical cancer and a champion against ... three cycles of brachytherapy, and five rounds of chemotherapy. But perhaps the most painful aspect of ...

The team commended Rwanda for the commitment to strengthen cancer control and the significant progress made since a previous imPACT review in 2014. Rwanda is currently updating its National Cancer ...