Technology allows doctors to see beam field during radiation treatment
Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC), USA, is the first cancer centre in the world…
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Much shorter radiation treatment found to be safe, effective for people with soft tissue sarcoma
A new study led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, USA, found…
A generation of Canadian children was given radiation treatment and never warned of the cancer risks
Itai Bavli, University of British Columbia On February 9, 2001, the Vancouver Sun published an…
AACR 2019: Hour of radiation treatments can affect mucositis for patients with head/neck cancers
Painful sores in the mouth and throat are one of the most common adverse side…
An AI oncologist to help cancer patients worldwide
Before performing radiation therapy, radiation oncologists first carefully review medical images of a patient to…
New research highlights how cancer cells repair themselves following proton beam therapy
Collaborative research conducted in Liverpool and Oxford, published in The Red Journal, identifies the specific cellular…
SABCS 2016: More complications for breast cancer patients who get radiation, implants
Many breast cancer patients who have a mastectomy will consider breast reconstruction. But for a…
#MicroRNA: Enhancing cancer response to radiation
Researcher Sudarshan Anand has a contemporary analogy to describe microRNA: “I sometimes compare MicroRNA to…