Radiation therapy is a treatment that uses high doses of radiation to damage cancer cells, either killing them or slowing their growth. Unlike the low-dose radiation used in X-rays to see inside the ...
Prostate cancer is Australia's most commonly diagnosed cancer. One in six men will be diagnosed by the time they turn 85. Cancers are abnormal groups of cells that grow uncontrollably and start ...
Researchers at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Miami devised an MRI-guided radiation therapy technique using machine learning that may allow for real-time monitoring of ...
RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — VCU Health has debuted southern Virginia’s only radiation therapy machine with new Varian HyperSight technology. On Wednesday, June 11, leaders from VCU Health, donors and local ...
The Lower Columbia Regional Cancer Center has a $2.7 million sharpshooter that will improve cancer treatment by reducing radiation damage to healthy tissue. "Radiation ... has to destroy some normal ...
Radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy) uses high-energy beams or subatomic particles to damage the DNA inside prostate cancer cells. After enough damage, the cells cannot multiply, and they die.
For many men, a prostate cancer diagnosis raises an immediate question: what are my treatment options and how will they affect my life?By Professor ...
A new step in painless, cut-free brain surgery is bringing international attention to Jersey Shore University Medical Center.
People living with joint pain from osteoarthritis who have not found relief through medications or physical therapy are not ...
NORWALK — Norwalk Hospital is now offering a tattoo-less radiation therapy for all breast cancer patients, leaving them "with as little a reminder" as possible of their rigorous treatments as possible ...
Author Colleen Hoover has completed her radiation therapy after undergoing surgery for cancer, without needing chemotherapy. Radiation therapy uses high-energy rays to destroy cancer cells, shrink ...
Radiation treatment for cancer patients at the Galle National Hospital has come to a complete halt due to the breakdown of the Linear Accelerator radiotherapy machine and the Cobalt radiotherapy ...