When you're in the middle of cancer treatment, your main goal is to control the disease. But you should also be aware of how each type of therapy might affect you now and in the future. Radiation ...

Radiation therapy is an outpatient treatment that targets and kills cancer cells while minimizing damage to healthy tissues. Here’s what you can expect. Radiation treatment, also known as ...

It used to be that radiation therapy for prostate cancer involved weeks or months of repeat visits to a clinic for treatment. Today that’s not necessarily true. Instead of giving small doses ...

A review commissioned by the World Health Organization into the potential risks of cellphone radiation has found no connection between cellphone use and brain cancer, even for people who spend all ...

Radiation therapy is a significant risk factor for soft tissue sarcoma in breast cancer survivors. Receiving radiation therapy for breast cancers harboring TP53 germline variants may cause secondary ...

Cancer Patient Avoided Side Effects With New Advance In Radiation Therapy By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, May 6, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Tiffiney Beard expected a rough road ahead ...

about 103,000 radiation-induced cancers are projected to result from CT exams done in 2023. "If current practices persist, CT-associated cancer could eventually account for 5% of all new cancer ...

Building on these findings, the team emphasizes the importance of integrating genetic testing with modern radiation therapy to further personalize prostate cancer treatment. "This genre of genetic ...

Now, UC San Francisco scientists have developed a way to deliver radiation just to cancerous cells. The therapy combines a drug to mark the cancer cells for destruction and a radioactive antibody to ...

A recent study linked 5% of all new cancer cases to radiation exposure from CT scans – a finding that’s raised concern among patients. But experts say avoiding a CT scan when you need one can ...

Scientists long ago established that ionizing radiation emitted by computed tomography, or CT, scans increases cancer risk. But, since 2007, use of the imaging technique has surged 35% ...

Since radiation works better when oxygen is present, the physician scientists believe this technique will allow for maximal tumor destruction and prevent or prolong the need for rectal cancer surgery.