External beam radiation therapy is the most common type of radiation therapy ... Brachytherapy (BRAY-kee-THAYR-uh-pee), also called internal radiation, puts the radioactive material close to or inside ...

Scientists at UC San Francisco have developed a revolutionary cancer treatment that precisely targets tumors with radiation ...

Permanent prostate seed implant is an internal radiation treatment for patients with prostate cancers ... targeted doses of radiation to destroy cancer cells. The radiation beam treats each part of ...

Radiotherapy is either external (teletherapy) or internal (brachytherapy). Teletherapy refers to radiation therapy given by an external radiation ... Healthy tissue, including skin, in the path of the ...

It was a radiation therapy machine. In layman’s terms it was a “cancer zapper”; a linear accelerator with a human as its target. Using X-rays or a beam of electrons, radiation therapy ...

Glioblastoma, the most common and lethal form of primary brain cancer, presents daunting challenges. Each year, around 14,500 people in the United States face this aggressive disease. Its invasive ...

Interventional therapies, including transarterial chemoembolization (TACE), yttrium-90 selective internal radiation therapy (90Y SIRT), and ablation ...

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute have found that fewer sessions of higher dose vaginal cuff brachytherapy work just ...

To date, the service has performed approximately 15 000 radiotherapy beam checks around the world ... verify the dosimetry of high dose rate brachytherapy, a type of internal radiation therapy used to ...

In Meraouna et al.'s study, the failure-free survival rate was 66% at 3 years of follow-up. Regarding treatment-related morbidities, 12.3% of patients experienced grade 3 genitourinary (GU) toxicity, ...