Doctors refer to internal radiation therapy as brachytherapy. They administer brachytherapy via an implant in the body, which they often place in the cervix, uterus, or vagina to treat cervical cancer ...

DURHAM – Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated the most effective treatment for pancreatic cancer ever recorded in mouse models. While most mouse trials consider simply halting ...

If you’ve received a cancer diagnosis, there’s a good chance you’ll need radiation therapy. More than half of people diagnosed with cancer receive this type of treatment, but the thought of undergoing ...

Engineers at Duke University have developed a novel delivery system for cancer treatment and demonstrated its potential against one of the disease’s most troublesome forms. In newly published research ...

One evening before bedtime, Elaine Cook noticed one of her breasts had leaked brownish fluid on her pajama top. Diagnosis later revealed she had breast cancer, fortunately just short of Stage 1.

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.

Oral cancer involves malignant growths or tumors that can occur anywhere in the mouth or the throat. Doctors sometimes recommend radiation therapy to treat it, which involves doses of radiation to ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - When it comes to cancer, there’s one category that may not get as much attention as other forms of the disease September is prostate cancer awareness month, and while it’s the ...

Different breast cancers start, progress and respond to treatments in different ways. At Fred Hutch Cancer Center, we choose, combine and schedule your treatments based on what works for your ...

Physicians at medical practices affiliated with Solaris Health, the nation’s leading healthcare management company in the urological field, are the first throughout the country to provide a new ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Biomedical engineers at Duke University have demonstrated the most effective treatment for pancreatic cancer ever recorded in mouse models. While most mouse trials consider simply ...