Radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy) uses high-energy beams or subatomic particles to damage the DNA inside prostate cancer cells. After enough damage, the cells cannot multiply, and they die.

ROCHESTER — Certain cases of breast cancer can be treated with less intense doses of radiation therapy over fewer days, a recently published Mayo Clinic study found. "The standard at the time, for ...

Radiation therapy is a treatment that uses high-energy rays, like X-rays, gamma rays or protons, to target and destroy cancer cells. It works by damaging the DNA of cancer cells, preventing them from ...

“Traditionally, breast cancer was treated over a course of five to six weeks,” said D. Hunter Boggs, M.D., an associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology. “Over the past few decades, ...

MARCAP investigators conducted the first individual patient data meta-analysis of randomized trials (POSEIDON) evaluating the use and duration hormone therapy with postoperative radiation therapy in ...

About 60 percent of all cancer patients in the United States receive radiation therapy as part of their treatment. However, this radiation can have severe side effects that often end up being too ...

Radiation therapy offered no survival benefit for women with early-stage breast cancer who received mastectomy, lymph node surgery and cancer drugs, according to an international study published Nov.

A new Phase I clinical trial from London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute (LHSCRI) has found high-precision radiation therapy is safe for use in patients with cancer that has spread to more ...

MiraDx, a molecular diagnostics company focused on genetic testing to personalize cancer treatment, today announced the U.S. commercial launch of PROSTOX™ Standard, a new, clinically validated genetic ...

CANCER TREATMENT CAN BE GRUELING, AND IT CAN ALSO MAKE FOR LONG DAYS. A NEW STUDY, THOUGH, SHOWS HIGHER DOSES OF RADIATION GIVEN OVER FEWER SESSIONS WAS AS EFFECTIVE AS BEING GIVEN LOWER DOSES OVER ...

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, you’re not alone—and you don’t have to wait long to take the next step. Whether you’re newly diagnosed, moving from active surveillance ...