“Then we also treat the cancer with radiation. So it’s a lot higher energies. It does more damage to the cells in the body ...

Stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) is a type of radiation therapy in which special equipment is used to precisely deliver ...

A new study highlights the impressive results. The detection threshold of the cascade-engineered devices has improved ...

Radiotherapy is a crucial cancer treatment and a career in this field offers a chance to impact people’s lives ...

A new species of tardigrades with thousands of genes that become more active when exposed to radiation could help in devising ...

But increasingly, there is an alternative to tattooing — most notably, surface-guided radiation therapy (SGRT). SGRT utilizes ...

Without protection, these particles can penetrate the human body and cause cellular damage. Tardigrades could lead to ...

But even if you opt for the more recent MRI scans, which don’t expose you to radiation, whole-body scans can cause more harm than good when used for blanket screening tests without specific ...

Radiation therapy has been used to treat cancer since the beginning of the 20th century. This type of treatment continues to be one of the most effective treatments for cancerous (malignant) and ...

After a comprehensive two-year follow-up, researchers found that MRI-guided stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT) for prostate cancer significantly reduced long-term side effects and improved quality ...

If the concentration of lead is too low, the drugs would remove too much natural metal before putting a sizable dent in the amount of lead in the body. Treating radiation poisoning is harder.

Treatment of advanced disease, when it has spread, often relies on treatments that can travel all around the body, such as chemotherapy or immunotherapy. A more advanced form of radiation therapy ...