Improvements in Radiation Therapy Help Patients with Mesothelioma

Isn’t it a beautiful thing when technology improves, especially in the medical field? Mesothelioma patients who received novel radiation therapy followed by lung-sparing pleurectomy/decortication (P/D) surgery lived almost twice as long as those who underwent the more...

Top 5 Most Frequently Asked Questions About Radiation Therapy?

Many people fear radiation therapy treatments because they do not understand the process or the real risks and benefits. Lack of information and misinformation can cloud your judgment and influence your decision-making capabilities negatively. Read the following...

Bone Metastases and Use of Single-Fraction Radiation Therapy

A new study shows that single-fraction is just as effective as multiple-fraction radiation therapy to ease the pain of bone metastases. The International Journal of Radiation Oncology states that switching from multiple-fraction radiation therapy to single-fraction...

Low Doses of Radiation are Okay for Some Neck and Head Cancers

In a recent article published Medscape, people that are HPV positive oropharyngeal cancer patients who have proven to be sensitive to induction chemotherapy now have other options- a lower, less-toxic dose of radiation therapy, according to phase 2 ECOG 1308 study. As...