Nearly one-quarter of inoperable intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas shrank enough to make surgery possible after selective internal radiation was added to chemotherapy, a study shows. With the addition ...

The sugar coating on cancer cells helps them thrive, and a new study indicates patients with cervical cancer who make antibodies to those sugars appear to do better when they also receive internal ...

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.

While advanced or inoperable hepatocellular carcinoma patients treated with selective internal radiation therapy showed similar overall survival to patients receiving sorafenib, it caused ...

For liver cancer patients, who are declared inoperable due to large multiple tumours, selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT), where the radio-active substance directly reaches the tumour through ...

We read with interest the recent article in Journal of Clinical Oncology by van Hazel et al, 1 which examines the addition of selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) to a standard regimen of ...

Approximately one in eight men will develop prostate cancer, which is the second-leading cause of cancer death in American men and typically affects patients who are 65 or older. Fortunately, the ...

Radiation is a century-old tool in fighting cancer. In recent years, scientists have sharpened its focus, to attack tumors without damaging the body around it. In this week's Moves in Medicine, we ...

Hubballi: A woman from Belagavi battling a uterus tumour has undergone brachytherapy (or internal radiation therapy) at Karnataka Medical College and Research Institute (KMC-RI) in Hubballi. The ...

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An extensive study of internal radiation exposure in Fukushima Prefecture children detected no radioactive cesium among the examinees, according to the results of a study published Friday. The study, ...