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09 Aug
Post-Op Radiation May Give Long-Term Protection Against Breast Cancer's Return

Post-Op Radiation May Give Long-Term Protection Against Breast Cancer's Return

Radiation therapy following surgery can keep breast cancer from returning for up to 10 years, a new study claims.

The study supports the current standard  of care for

11 Jul
Early Trial Shows New Treatment Hits Tough-to-Treat Glioblastomas Harder

Early Trial Shows New Treatment Hits Tough-to-Treat Glioblastomas Harder

Radioactive substances injected into the body could provide a better way of treating glioblastoma, the most malignant form of brain cancer, a new review says.

The cancer treatment, called targeted alpha therapy (TAT), involves injection of radioactive alpha particles att...

20 Mar
Cryoblation 'Freeze' Treatment Works for Large Breast Tumors

Cryoblation 'Freeze' Treatment Works for Large Breast Tumors

Killing off large tumors by freezing them could become an effective means of fighting difficult-to-treat breast cancer, a new study says.

Only 10% of people who underwent the m...

08 Mar
Senate Passes Bill to Compensate More Americans Exposed to Radiation

Senate Passes Bill to Compensate More Americans Exposed to Radiation

More Americans exposed to radiation caused by the government would be compensated under a bill that passed the U.S. Senate Thursday.

The bipartisan legislation, which would cost an estimated $50 ...

09 Oct
'Liquid Biopsy' Could Help Guide Lung Cancer Treatment

'Liquid Biopsy' Could Help Guide Lung Cancer Treatment

For a subset of patients with advanced lung cancer, radiation therapy can sometimes substantially extend their lives.

Now a new study hints that a blood test could...

04 Oct
Shorter Course of Radiation May Be Safe for Women Undergoing Breast Reconstruction

Shorter Course of Radiation May Be Safe for Women Undergoing Breast Reconstruction

Breast cancer patients who undergo a mastectomy can probably benefit from a shorter course of more intense radiation therapy, a new study indicates.

Hypofractionated radiation therapy -- which provides a higher dose each session over three weeks -- provides the same prot...

17 Aug
Skipping Radiation May Be Safe for Some With Early Breast Cancer

Skipping Radiation May Be Safe for Some With Early Breast Cancer

Many women with early breast cancer undergo breast-conserving surgery along with radiation to kill any errant cancer cells, but some may be able to safely skip radiation, new research suggests.

"If the tumors are low-risk, as defined in part by being caught early/small a...

25 Jul
Imaging Technology May Make Radiation Safer for Prostate Cancer Patients

Imaging Technology May Make Radiation Safer for Prostate Cancer Patients

A technique that uses imaging technology as a guide can make radiation therapy safer for patients undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, a new research review finds.

The technology enables clinicians to accurately aim the radiation beams at the prostate, while avoidin...

21 Jul
Breast Cancer Survivors Age Faster Biologically Than Cancer-Free Women: Study

Breast Cancer Survivors Age Faster Biologically Than Cancer-Free Women: Study

Women who have survived breast cancer age faster than women who have never had to survive the disease.

The treatment they received impacted their aging rates, according to a

06 Jun
Can Some Cancer Patients Safely Skip Radiation Therapy? New Studies Say Yes

Can Some Cancer Patients Safely Skip Radiation Therapy? New Studies Say Yes

Radiation therapy might not be necessary in treating some forms of rectal cancer and lymphoma, sparing patients from the toxic treatment, a pair of new clinical trials shows.

One trial found that rectal cancer patients whose tumors shrink in response to chemotherapy can ...

08 May
New Hope Against Painful Skin Issues Caused by Cancer Radiation Therapy

New Hope Against Painful Skin Issues Caused by Cancer Radiation Therapy

When Ann Alexander underwent chemotherapy to treat breast cancer a decade ago, she was warned about potential hair loss, nausea and vomiting.

The 73-year-old wasn't, however, told about the potential side effects of radiation therapy, namely acute radiation dermatitis. S...

25 Apr
New Treatment Could Be Safer Way to Fight Brain Tumors in Kids

New Treatment Could Be Safer Way to Fight Brain Tumors in Kids

Each year, about 140 kids in the United States are diagnosed with a craniopharyngioma, a typically non-cancerous brain tumor that develops near the pituitary gland at the base of the brain.

Doctors treat craniopharyngiomas with surgery to remove the entire tumor or a les...

24 Apr
How Many CT Scans Are Safe for Kids?

How Many CT Scans Are Safe for Kids?

Getting a single CT scan during childhood doesn't appear to increase a child's risk of a future brain tumor, leukemia or lymphoma, new research finds, but getting four or more scans more than doubles the chances.

CT scans use low-dose radiation, which can damage cells. P...

16 Feb
Do Older Patients Need Radiation Rx After Breast Cancer Surgery?

Do Older Patients Need Radiation Rx After Breast Cancer Surgery?

Many older women with early-stage breast cancer can skip radiation without harming their survival odds, a new clinical trial finds.

The study involved women age 65 and older who had surgery for small breast tumors deemed to be low risk of coming back. Typically, those wo...

09 Dec
Gene Test Might Help Some Breast Cancer Patients Skip Radiation After Lumpectomy

Gene Test Might Help Some Breast Cancer Patients Skip Radiation After Lumpectomy

A new genetic test may help determine which people with breast cancer can safely skip radiation after breast-conserving surgery to remove their tumor.

Individuals with invasive breast cancer who had low scores on an investigational gene panel were just as likely to ...

18 Nov
Study Takes Long-Term Look at Benefits of Radiation After Breast Lumpectomy

Study Takes Long-Term Look at Benefits of Radiation After Breast Lumpectomy

If you're diagnosed with early breast cancer, treatment often involves breast-conserving surgery followed by chemotherapy, medication and a course of radiation to keep your cancer from coming back. However, little has been known about the long-term benefits of radiation.

26 Oct
Pain Relief in a FLASH: Radiation Treatments Lasting Seconds May Advance Cancer Care

Pain Relief in a FLASH: Radiation Treatments Lasting Seconds May Advance Cancer Care

Flash radiotherapy, a new technology that uses targeted proton beams, is safe and effective in relieving pain for terminal cancer patients, a new, small study suggests.

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25 Oct
How Dangerous Is It for Lung Cancer Patients to Skip Radiation Treatments?

How Dangerous Is It for Lung Cancer Patients to Skip Radiation Treatments?

As doctors work toward developing more personalized cancer care, a new study looks at whether lung cancer patients can miss a few days of radiation treatment and make them up with a higher dose.

The more treatments a patient skips, the higher their risk of early death, ...

10 Oct
Order of Radiation Sickness Drug Unrelated to Recent Events in Ukraine, U.S. Health Officials Say

Order of Radiation Sickness Drug Unrelated to Recent Events in Ukraine, U.S. Health Officials Say

While the United States has recently ordered a $290 million supply of a drug meant to treat radiation sickness, federal health officials say that's not cause for alarm.

It's coincidental th...

07 Jun
Some Younger Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancers Might Skip Radiation

Some Younger Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancers Might Skip Radiation

Tens of thousands of breast cancer patients could safely go without radiation therapy after their tumor has been removed, a new study argues.

Gene testing helped doctors identify a group of women who skipped

03 Jan
Black Men Get Better Outcomes From Radiation Rx for Prostate Cancer

Black Men Get Better Outcomes From Radiation Rx for Prostate Cancer

A new analysis uncovers a racial paradox in prostate cancer care: While Black men are often diagnosed later and with more aggressive disease than white men, radiation therapy seems to work better for them than for their white peers.

To come to that conclusion, resea...

07 Dec
Black Women Have Triple the Odds for Lymphedema After Breast Cancer Surgery

Black Women Have Triple the Odds for Lymphedema After Breast Cancer Surgery

A condition called lymphedema is a well-known side effect of breast cancer treatment that can lead to swelling in the arms and legs.

New research suggests that Black women experience are at more than three times the risk of this painful issue compared to white women.

25 Nov
What You Need to Know About Stomach Cancer

What You Need to Know About Stomach Cancer

New treatment options are giving hope to patients with stomach cancer.

Also known as gastric cancer, the disease is the world's sixth most common cancer with 1.09 million new cases in 2020, according to the World Health Organization.

It's an abnormal growth of cell...

16 Nov
Breast Cancer Diagnosis Linked to Higher Odds for Dangerous A-Fib

Breast Cancer Diagnosis Linked to Higher Odds for Dangerous A-Fib

Women with breast cancer are known to have heart problems related to treatment, and now a new study shows their odds of developing an abnormal heart rhythm known as atrial fibrillation (a-fib) may increase in the wake of a breast cancer diagnosis.

Women who develop a-fib...

15 Nov
Low-Dose CT Scans Can Diagnose Appendicitis

Low-Dose CT Scans Can Diagnose Appendicitis

CT scans expose patients to radiation even as they help doctors spot serious health problems. Now a new study finds low-dose scans can readily spot appendicitis while reducing patients' radiation exposure.

"The results of this study suggest that the diagnostic CT scan ra...

11 Nov
50 Years On, Real Progress in War Against Cancer

50 Years On, Real Progress in War Against Cancer

Since 1971, when the U.S. government made defeating cancer a goal and put major funding behind it, death rates for many cancers have plummeted, but some are increasing, according to a new American Cancer Society report.

Death rates for all cancers combined have decl...

27 Oct
Shorter Course of Post-Op Radiation May Work Well for Prostate Cancer Patients

Shorter Course of Post-Op Radiation May Work Well for Prostate Cancer Patients

After prostate cancer surgery, men can safely undergo fewer radiation treatments at higher doses, a new clinical trial shows.

Researchers found that the shorter regimen -- given over five weeks, instead of seven -- did not raise patients' odds of lasting side effects.

26 Oct
Targeted High-Dose Radiation Helps Fight Advanced Lung Cancer

Targeted High-Dose Radiation Helps Fight Advanced Lung Cancer

High-dose radiation therapy may stall tumor growth in patients with advanced lung cancer who are not fully responding to drug therapies, a preliminary study suggests.

The study involved patients whose lung cancer was considered "oligoprogressive." That means the cancer h...

28 Sep
Tough Choices: Chemo That Can Save Kids With Cancer Can Also Damage Hearing

Tough Choices: Chemo That Can Save Kids With Cancer Can Also Damage Hearing

The cancer drug cisplatin can save children's lives, but often with the side effect of hearing loss. Now a new study shows that young children are especially vulnerable, and the hearing damage may begin early in the course of treatment.

The researchers said the find...

22 Sep
Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer May Have Long-Term Risk for the Heart

Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer May Have Long-Term Risk for the Heart

Younger women who undergo radiation for cancer in the left breast have a heightened risk of heart disease years later, a new study finds.

Among women who received radiation therapy for left-sided breast cancer, 10.5% developed coronary artery disease over the next 27 yea...