This release is also available in Spanish. The Department of Radiology and Physical Medicine of the Universidad de Granada, in Andalusian hospitals radiotherapy is not used as much as should be ...

After breast cancer surgery, patients typically face an agonizing six weeks of radiation therapy. A new procedure is giving some the choice of a five-day treatment. "Normally, we treat the whole ...

For the first time in Utah, Intermountain Health doctors have performed an innovative new procedure using radiation therapy typically applied to treat cancer patients to cure a life-threatening ...

People who undergo radiation-based tests and procedures after a heart attack may have a heightened risk of developing cancer down the road, a study published Monday suggests. Researchers found that ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Every year, Guthrie resident Donna Romine is diligent about getting her mammogram. In 2014, her diligence may have saved her life. “One year it wasn’t there, the next year it was,” ...

Florida Cancer Specialists has integrated SpaceOAR Hydrogel into its armamentarium as a pre-treatment for radiation therapy in prostate cancer patients. Florida Cancer Specialists (FCS), the largest ...

New York (MedscapeWire) June 21 — A relatively small number of patients are suffering radiation injuries when they undergo x-ray guided interventional procedures, such as coronary angioplasty, a new ...

(HealthDay News) – National strategies should be developed for the use of evidence-based criteria and improved oversight of equipment to minimize radiation exposure for patients undergoing diagnostic ...

What advantages are there to using remote afterloading devices, compared with manual brachytherapy procedures? Foremost, staff will be less exposed to radiation. When circumstances allow remote ...

An episode-based payment model, the Radiation Oncology Alternative Payment Model (RO-APM), has been proposed for Medicare reimbursement of radiation services provided to oncology patients. RO-APM may ...

In a large study, about 2% of patients underwent procedures that resulted in high annual effective doses. Steady growth in use of medical imaging technologies that employ ionizing radiation leads to ...