Radiation therapy with curative intent (for potentially operable tumors in patients with medical contraindications to surgery).
Radical radiation therapy with curative intent to the cervical lymph nodes and possible sites of origin.
I'll watch family members fall over when I say the study has no curative intent.
Palliative chemotherapy is given without curative intent, but simply to decrease tumor load and increase life expectancy.
Radiation therapy when given alone with curative intent has never been shown to improve survival from mesothelioma.
Based on the long-term survival of these early stage patients, electron-beam radiation therapy is sometimes used with curative intent.
Radical surgery represents the standard form of therapy that has curative intent.
In patients not suitable for resection with curative intent, palliative chemotherapy may be used to improve quality of life and gain a modest survival benefit.
Small and localized tumors are treated surgically with curative intent.
In patients with localised disease but contraindications to surgery, "radical radiotherapy" may be used with curative intent.