When a child is diagnosed with cancer, parents face a barrage of treatment options, each with its own set of risks and ...

Health Minister Simeon Brown said the new LINAC machine is the first of two coming to the hospital.

As treatment centers vanish, millions face longer trips for cancer care as experts warn the gap could keep growing.

Doctors sometimes use radiation therapy to treat early stage non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). To treat advanced stages, they may recommend radiation therapy alongside other treatments, such as ...

More than 50 million Americans live in counties without a radiation oncology practice site as rural and community-based ...

Oral cancer involves malignant growths or tumors that can occur anywhere in the mouth or the throat. Doctors sometimes recommend radiation therapy to treat it, which involves doses of radiation to ...

Adjuvant radiation therapy use has risen slightly overall in Merkel cell carcinoma but not for localized disease, study shows ...

The TROG 08.03 RAVES randomized controlled trial substudy examined quality of life after post-prostatectomy radiation therapy.

Radiation therapy is a treatment that uses high doses of radiation to damage cancer cells, either killing them or slowing their growth. Unlike the low-dose radiation used in X-rays to see inside the ...

Cancer has always been a concern for humanity. The disease is evident in fossils and mummies, present in historical writings, and can be passed down from our ancestors. In fact, the oldest recorded ...

Every year, doctors get better tools to fight cancer. Engineered cancer-killing cells, immunotherapies, targeted drugs, and more are helping clinicians cure more patients. Increasingly, though, ...

Radiation therapy is often a key part of treatment for oral cancer. The side effects can be uncomfortable but are usually temporary. Tongue cancer is a type of oral cancer. Often, the best course of ...