Stereotactic Radio Surgery, Embolization and Conservative Management for Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformation: A New Zealand Experience of Long-Term Outcomes.

Objective: Cerebral arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) can be treated by microsurgery, stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) as a stand-alone procedure, or combining embolization and conservative management. This single-center, retrospective review explored the outcomes of patients treated with SRS alone, embolization before SRS (ESRS), or conservative management for cerebral AVMs.

Methods: Demographic details, Spetzler-Martin grade, SRS dose, obliteration, time to obliteration, imaging modality, rebleed, disease-specific mortality, and post-SRS complications were collected.

An integrative Tai Chi program for patients with breast cancer undergoing cancer therapy: study protocol for a randomized controlled feasibility study.

Background: Breast cancer patients experience various side effects during cancer therapy, often resulting in reduced quality of life and poor adherence to treatment. A limited range of proven interventions has been developed to target such side effects. While Tai Chi offers benefits for the health and well-being of breast cancer survivors, the effectiveness of Tai Chi across the treatment continuum has not been evaluated.

Choroidal melanoma treated with stereotactic fractionated radiotherapy and prophylactic intravitreal bevacizumab: The Dunedin Hospital experience.

Introduction: Choroidal melanoma (CM) is the most common primary ocular malignancy in adults. This study reviewed the Dunedin Hospital (DH) experience in the treatment of CM with stereotactic fractionated radiotherapy (SRT) and the outcome of prophylactic use of intravitreal injection bevacizumab (PIB) in preventing radiation retinopathy (RR).

Methods: A retrospective study was conducted of patients at DH who underwent SRT for CM with and without PIB from 1 January 2001 to 31 January 2012.

The management of perineural spread of squamous cell carcinoma to the ocular adnexae.

Purpose: To analyze a series of patients with periorbital perineural spread of squamous cell carcinoma and propose treatment guidelines.

Methods: Retrospective, noncomparative, interventional case series of 17 patients with clinical, radiologic, or histologic evidence of distant perineural spread. Treatment, recurrence, progression, and mortality rates were recorded.

Part-time consultants in radiation oncology.

The aim of this study was to evaluate the attitudes and experiences of staff towards radiation oncologists who work part-time. A questionnaire was sent to all radiation oncologists, radiation oncology registrars and radiation therapists, and a nursing and clerical representative working in all radiation oncology departments throughout Australia and New Zealand. Of 1242 questionnaires, 446 (35.