Radiation helps eye cancer patients beat the disease, retain vision
Doctors in the United Kingdom have determined that patients suffering from cancer affecting their eye can usually avoid visual handicap, loss of the eye and spread of the disease by receiving proton beam radiation therapy, according to a new study published in the August 1, 2005 issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics, the official journal of ASTRO, the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology.
Of the 346 patients who had the ability to count fingers before treatment began, 79.1 percent of them retained that ability at the five year mark. Before treatment, 212 patients had 20/40 vision, 44.8 percent were able to retain that visual acuity five years following radiation therapy. Overall survival rates based on the cancer spreading to other parts of the body was high with 90 percent of the patients able to stave off further disease when they were checked at the five year milestone.
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