Background: Geriatric patients, prone to adverse events (AEs) and low compliance with drugs, may benefit from minimally invasive surgical therapies (MISTs) for managing benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). We evaluated the efficacy, safety, and procedural characteristics of MISTs in geriatric patients with BPH.
Methods: PubMed/MEDLINE database was systematically searched for relevant articles through October 1, 2023.
Purpose: Treatment for locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer consists of concurrent chemoradiation followed by immunotherapy. Though this combination has been shown to have a benefit in both progression-free survival and overall survival, treatment is often limited by the development of pneumonitis. One way to mitigate toxicity is through adaptive radiation therapy, which does not currently have a standardized implementation in clinical practice.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLung cancer treatment is constantly evolving due to technological advances in the delivery of radiation therapy. Adaptive radiation therapy (ART) allows for modification of a treatment plan with the goal of improving the dose distribution to the patient due to anatomic or physiologic deviations from the initial simulation. The implementation of ART for lung cancer is widely varied with limited consensus on who to adapt, when to adapt, how to adapt, and what the actual benefits of adaptation are.
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