The main advances in prostate cancer treatment are being made in surgery and radiotherapy .
Seven-year-old Neon Roberts has completed his course of radiotherapy and will start chemotherapy next month.
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In these cases, doctors often recommend "watchful waiting" rather than treating with surgery or radiotherapy.
The 44-year-old made a full recovery in 2003 after being treated with surgery and radiotherapy.
They managed to prevent the destruction of oocytes in female mice who were undergoing radiotherapy.
In addition, many radiotherapy machines were also well past their sell-by date, he said.
One hundred patients have undergone radiotherapy treatment using the mask at Plymouth's Derriford Hospital.
Conventionally, after cancer treatment, women often have to return for several sessions of radiotherapy.
Symptoms can include seizures and blindness, and treatment may involve surgery, chemotherapy or, ironically, radiotherapy.
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He expects to undergo radiotherapy as well, and has cancelled all travel plans for three months.
Despite radiotherapy, Millington died on February 8, 2008, at his family home near Stoke-on-Trent, in Staffordshire.
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After undergoing radiotherapy and chemotherapy Mrs Gladwin has been in remission for the past five years.
After chemotherapy or radiotherapy is used to treat cancer, there is damage to the tissue.
Chemotherapy is provided at the hospital but those who need radiotherapy travel elsewhere, including Carlisle and Preston.
Between 30% and 40% of breast surgery and radiotherapy patients are affected to some degree by lymphoedema.
Lula, 66, was diagnosed with the cancer in October last year and given chemotherapy and later radiotherapy.
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Two other pieces of research suggested that both radiotherapy and improvements in chemotherapy were also saving lives.
Mr Howe, who has two children, underwent surgery in the same month and started courses of chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment.
Mr Justice Bodey was told by specialists that Neon could die within months without radiotherapy for the tumour.
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It delivers an initial blow which leaves the tumour weaker and more susceptible to radiotherapy and standard chemotherapies.
Improvements recommended by the report include bringing London's five cancer networks together to coordinate radiotherapy treatment services to cut waiting times.
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Radiotherapy: May be given before surgery to shrink a tumour or after surgery to prevent the cancer coming back.
Belle, who lives in Canterbury in Kent, has been treated with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery and a stem cell transplant.
Some patients at Raigmore hospital in Inverness are waiting 15 weeks for radiotherapy after their surgery has taken place.
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President Chavez, who had surgery and radiotherapy in 2011 and earlier this year, has said he is now cancer-free.
Last year 98% of patients were given radiotherapy within 31 days of surgery.
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When Alice was diagnosed with cancer she underwent extensive chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments.
At present, damage to the gut is one of the factors that limits the intensity of radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatments.
As well as surgery, another option for doctors is radiotherapy , which will be precisely targeted on the pelvic area.
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