The chance of certain side effects will depend on where your cancer is and how high the dose of radiation will be. Because IMRT minimizes radiation to healthy cells, it may have fewer side effects ...

If you have cancer ... side effects. Radiation therapist. A person trained to work the devices that give radiation therapy. Dosimetrist. Someone who arranges the right dose of radiation therapy ...

Ionizing radiation is considered a non-threshold carcinogen. However, quantifying the risk of the more commonly encountered low and/or protracted radiation exposures remains problematic and ...

Traditionally, men who chose radiation therapy for prostate cancer undergo radiation for weeks or even months. But now, in certain cases, it can be completed in less than a week. Prostate cancer ...

To better understand whether there might be an increased risk of toxicity with the delivery of a higher dose per day of radiation, Kishan and the team of researchers examined data from more than ...

The radiation is in the form of X-rays, protons, or other types of energy. MSK Precise® can treat early-stage breast cancer after a lumpectomy. This method uses a precise, high-dose form of radiation ...

Bone marrow transplants allow doctors to use high dose chemotherapy and radiation to kill cancer cells. The high doses can cause severe damage to the bone marrow. However, a bone marrow transplant ...

The analysis found patients who received isodose MHFRT (60 Gy in 20 fractions) had similar cancer control and side effects compared to those receiving conventional radiation therapy, with no ...