After receiving radiation therapy for uterine cancer, you may experience fertility challenges, vaginal dryness, and bowel or bladder problems. Options to manage and relieve your side effects can vary.

For patients with intermediate-risk, localized prostate cancer, radiation therapy delivered in five sessions reduced patient-reported side effects compared to longer courses of radiation, according to ...

A study led by UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators found that stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), a form of high-dose radiation delivered in just five sessions, after ...

The amount of radiation emitted from the human body is extremely low and not dangerous, according to experts. Even with many people standing together in an isolated space, our bodies would act as ...

Photon- and proton-based radiation therapy conferred comparable health-related quality of life for people with breast cancer, according to the largest head-to-head comparison of the modalities for any ...

Radiation therapy for vulvar cancer uses high energy waves to kill cancer cells. It may help shrink a tumor so a doctor can surgically remove it, and it may help kill any cancer cells that remain ...

Professor of Nuclear Medicine at Padjadjaran University said it takes 30 years for half of the Cesium-137 to disappear from ...

Radiation injury poses a serious threat to human health, causing complex and multifaceted damage to cells and tissues. Such injury can be caused by various factors, including nuclear accidents, ...

Floy Agnes Lee, known as Aggie,was a hematology technician at Los Alamos, N.M., in 1945. Recruited to the Manhattan Project straight out of college, she collected blood samples from many Manhattan ...