If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, you’re not alone—and you don’t have to wait long to take the next step. Whether you’re newly diagnosed, moving from active surveillance ...

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 ...

While radiation therapy is an effective tool to destroy cancer cells, a new study from Vanderbilt researchers suggests that ...

Stanford Medicine opened a facility on Tuesday providing proton therapy to cancer patients. The treatment offers a new ...

SEATTLE — Radiation is a crucial part of treatment for many types of cancer. In fact, it is used in more than half of all cancer cases. “Most people are familiar with surgery,” said Dr. Nicholas ...

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 ...

I’M MINDY BASARA IN TODAY’S MEDICAL ALERT. RADIATION THERAPY IS A COMMON TREATMENT FOR CANCER. ABOUT HALF OF ALL CANCER PATIENTS WILL RECEIVE IT. ONE OF THE DOWNSIDES OF TRADITIONAL RADIATION IS THAT ...

Former President Joe Biden is marking a milestone in his ongoing prostate cancer treatment. The 82-year-old Biden on Monday finished a round of radiation therapy to treat the aggressive form of cancer ...

If the aches and pains of ongoing osteoarthritis are getting to be too much for you to bear, there may be a new way to find ...

Through this relationship, Lumonus will license and co-develop MSK's ECHO mathematical optimization engine into the Lumonus platform and will invest in joint research focused on advancing automated ...

Hyperbaric oxygen treatment provides long-term relief for patients suffering from late radiation-induced injuries after treatment of cancer in the lower abdominal area. Five years after hyperbaric ...

The Stanford School of Medicine unveiled a novel machine on Tuesday that treats cancer patients with a high degree of precision and is smaller and less expensive than its technological predecessors.