University of Wisconsin’s Carbone Cancer Center recently announced a partnership with TAE Life Sciences, a company that designs and commercializes radiation therapy to treat cancer. This partnership ...

For a typical cancer patient, radiation therapy is a six-week slog. After each week of five daily treatments, many patients experience an accumulation of side effects. Following the full treatment ...

For most patients, definitive treatment with combined modality therapy is recommended. (HealthDay News) — In a clinical practice guideline issued by the American Society for Radiation Oncology and ...

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, ...

While the use of radiation bridging therapy (BT) in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for blood cancer is expanding, plenty of unanswered questions remain on topics such as ideal timing ...

Radiation therapy is often described in clinical terms, but rarely through the eyes of the person lying on the treatment table. After decades of working with medical radiation professionally, I found ...

With smaller radiation beams, intensity-modulated radiation therapy “takes precision to the next level” for patients with prostate, an expert told CURE®. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) — ...

From processing vast amounts of data to providing insights beyond human capabilities, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to power unprecedented progress in the medical uses of radiation to ...

NORWALK — Norwalk Hospital is now offering a tattoo-less radiation therapy for all breast cancer patients, leaving them "with as little a reminder" as possible of their rigorous treatments as possible ...

The National Academies will organize a symposium to discuss the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in the fields of radiation therapy, diagnostics, and occupational ...

As part of the “Speaking Out” series, a radiation oncologist discusses the benefits of MRI-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy. Dr. Matthew Solhjem, a radiation oncologist with Providence ...