But radiation to the chest might also raise your odds of lung cancer down the road, especially if you've smoked for many years. The good news is that the chance of this happening is low overall ...

Proton therapy is a type of external beam radiation therapy that delivers high dose radiation directly to cancer cells. Learn about its benefits and uses for breast cancer treatment.

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 ...

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The lower radiation dose controlled the HPV positive throat cancers effectively, with the overall survival rate at a median of 2 years being 100% for all patients who received the lower dose. “We are ...

Radiation therapy for brain cancer can lead to side effects depending on the specific treatment technique used and individual factors. Late side effects may also occur months or years after treatment.

Higher radiation doses (70 Gy) in lung cancer treatment did not increase pneumonitis risk and improved survival rates. Patients receiving 70 Gy had lower pneumonitis rates (34.5%) compared to ...

Radiation therapy has long been a staple of treatment for many types of cancers. When it comes to prostate cancer, there are two kinds of radiation treatment: external beam radiation and ...

In a new study published in Nature, researchers at the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center explore a surprising phenomenon in which high doses of radiation cause growth in ...

TOPLINE: In patients with inoperable locally advanced esophageal cancer who received definitive concurrent chemoradiotherapy, a higher radiation dose (≥ 59.4 Gy) did not improve survival ...

A tumor’s size and location can help doctors determine the cancer stage and most effective treatment, along with other factors. As part of a breast cancer diagnosis, doctors order testing to ...

Risks of cancer-causing radiation from X-rays, CT scans 03:00. Approximately 93 million computed tomography examinations, or CT scans, are performed on 62 million patients annually in the United ...