Radiotherapy

The FDA approved pembrolizumab in combination with chemoradiotherapy for the treatment of certain women with stage III to stage IVA cervical cancer.

Younger postmenopausal women who underwent treatment without radiotherapy for early-stage hormone receptor-positive breast cancer experienced low 5-year recurrence rates, according to results presented at San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.

Hospitals that serve a high volume of Black and Hispanic patients are less likely to offer advanced medical equipment and critical services shown to boost the quality and effectiveness of cancer care, study results showed.

The number of cancer surgeries, chemotherapy treatments and radiation treatments declined dramatically during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, study findings published in JAMA Oncology showed.

Black individuals with early-onset colorectal cancer received worse and less timely care compared with white patients, according to results of a national hospital-based study.

Pediatric patients undergoing treatment with radiation therapy often have difficulty tolerating the process of daily treatment.

High-dose hyperfractionated thoracic radiotherapy with concurrent chemotherapy improved outcomes for patients with limited-stage small cell lung cancer, according to randomized phase 3 study results presented at ASTRO Annual Meeting.

Researchers observed similar outcomes between hypofractionated and conventional radiation therapy among patients with alcohol- and tobacco-associated, locally advanced head and neck cancer, according to phase 3 study results.

Hypofractionated postmastectomy proton radiotherapy shortened the duration of breast cancer treatment, according to results published in The Lancet Oncology.

Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy with immunotherapy significantly improvement EFS among patients with early-stage, treatment-naive or lung parenchymal recurrent node-negative non-small cell lung cancer, according to study results.