Modern techniques protect healthy tissues while treating various cancers and improving patients’ quality of life ...

A study published in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics demonstrates that clinicopathology (CP) based risk assessment frequently fails to accurately assess recurrence risk ...

Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) should be the preferred choice when treating patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), as it reduces radiation exposure to the ...

A recent investigation into small-cell lung cancer has uncovered an encouraging discovery regarding patient quality of life. While a new immunotherapy drug did not extend survival rates, researchers ...

Oral cancer involves malignant growths or tumors that can occur anywhere in the mouth or the throat. Doctors sometimes recommend radiation therapy to treat it, which involves doses of radiation to ...

Doctors may use radiation therapy to treat benign tumors. Radiation can shrink and eliminate benign growths without doctors having to perform surgery. Benign tumors are noncancerous growths that can ...

There are several different types of radiation therapy. The type that may be recommended for you depends on a variety of factors, such as your cancer, its stage, and your treatment goals. Radiation ...

Fred Hutch Cancer Center – Proton Therapy welcomed Isaac Valdez, PhD, CMD, as its new Associate Vice President of Radiation ...

Atlanta - Treating cancer means deciding whether to go with chemotherapy, surgery, radiation, or all or a combination of the above. "It is very dependent on your particular cancer, and one thing I ...

ROCHESTER — Certain cases of breast cancer can be treated with less intense doses of radiation therapy over fewer days, a recently published Mayo Clinic study found. "The standard at the time, for ...

It was the trip of a fly fisher’s lifetime. But Mark Hopkins’ wrists hurt. There was no way he’d be able to cast a line into the Rio Grande River near the southern end of South America, where the ...