"The heavy ion radiotherapy is more accurate and less harmful to cancer patients," said Ye, explaining that, compared to X-rays, carbon ions cause less harm to normal cells when penetrating biological ...

Researchers are a step closer to revolutionizing how doctors use radiotherapy to treat patients with muscle-invasive bladder ...

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Implementing hypofractionation – fewer but higher doses of radiation per daily treatment session over a shorter time frame – compared with conventional radiotherapy in prostate and breast cancer could ...

Two radiation therapy techniques, SBRT and hypofractionated CRT, may not have many differences for patients with stage 1 ...

(Reuters) - The commonly used number of radiation sessions can be cut by half in mastectomy patients who need the treatment before breast reconstruction, according to a study reported at a large ...

The commonly used number of radiation sessions can be cut by half in mastectomy patients who need the treatment before breast reconstruction, according to a study reported at a large meeting of cancer ...

Men with localized prostate cancer were randomly assigned to receive either SBRT or control radiotherapy in a phase 3 trial.