MGB has been lobbying against its former partner's proposed $1.7 billion, 300-bed cancer center, saying it is unnecessary, ...

The University of Connecticut Storrs campus and UConn Health recently removed a total of four cesium source irradiators from campuses through the Cesium Irradiator Replacement Project (CIRP), an ...

They attach the 131 I-MIBG drip to the cannula. It takes up to 4 hours to have the treatment. You stay in a single room until the radiation levels fall and it’s safe for you to go home. Your sweat, ...

Radioactive scans include: octreotide scans (or Octreoscans) – these are also called somatostatin receptor scintigraphy scans tektroyd scans gallium dotatate PET (positron emission tomography) scans ...

and tissue damage from radiation therapy. Hyperbaric chambers contain 100% oxygen, which is up to five times the amount of oxygen in a normal room, Troy Fire Lt. Keith Young said Friday at a news ...

Their active, healthy boy was facing many trips to Cincinnati, scans, surgery, bone marrow checks, transplants, radiation and chemotherapy ... MRI and MIBG scans on Tuesday and Wednesday ...

Radiation might not be a good option for some people whose liver has been extensively damaged by diseases such as hepatitis or cirrhosis. When used to treat liver cancer, radiation therapy is most ...

Monash University offers a 2 year graduate entry to practice Masters degree program that meets the requirements for graduates to become registered radiation therapists. The Master of Radiation Therapy ...

He concluded that penetrating radiation was entering the atmosphere from above. He had discovered cosmic rays. These high-energy particles arriving from outer space are mainly (89%) protons – nuclei ...