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...
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...
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...
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...