Brachytherapy is a specialized treatment that uses a substance to deliver highly focused radiation therapy directly to or ...

The annual “Heart of Gold” fundraising dinner for OSF Healthcare Foundation was held last week to collect proceeds for raise ...

Postoperative radiation therapy is recommended for all patients who have undergone breast-conserving surgery, as well as for ...

ASTRO’s first bladder cancer guideline recommends trimodal therapy as a curative option for selected patients and defines ...

Researchers at the University of Missouri have uncovered a promising way to protect saliva-producing glands from radiation ...

An updated clinical guideline from the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) provides evidence-based ...

The clinical trial “provides the clearest picture to date on how shorter radiation therapy schedules interact with modern ...

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 ...

Cutting-edge science known as AI-assisted adaptive radiation therapy treated her after a lumpectomy. The treatment helps ...

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 ...

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 ...

This summer, I underwent radiation therapy for tumors in my supraclavicular lymph nodes (left and right).I had to go to the ...