A Mayo Clinic-led first-in-human study found that proton beam therapy, a cancer treatment technology, cut episodes of life-threatening ventricular tachycardia by nearly 80% in patients with no ...

Mayo Clinic researchers report that a highly targeted, noninvasive form of radiation therapy reduced episodes of a ...

As part of the “Speaking Out” series, a radiation oncologist discusses the benefits of MRI-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy. Dr. Matthew Solhjem, a radiation oncologist with Providence ...

Doctors may use radiation therapy to treat benign tumors. Radiation can shrink and eliminate benign growths without doctors having to perform surgery. Benign tumors are noncancerous growths that can ...

There are several different types of radiation therapy. The type that may be recommended for you depends on a variety of factors, such as your cancer, its stage, and your treatment goals. Radiation ...

Targeted radiation therapy might be a safer way to treat a potentially dangerous heart rate problem, a new study says. Radiation therapy treated ventricular tachycardia as well as a standard but ...

Doctors sometimes use radiation therapy to treat early stage non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). To treat advanced stages, they may recommend radiation therapy alongside other treatments, such as ...

The success rate of salvage radiation after prostatectomy differs by patients’ PSA. Only a subset of patients with biochemically recurrent prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy (RP) will develop ...

The field of radiation oncology has advanced in brain cancer treatment with precise therapeutic approaches including proton and carbon therapy. The field of radiation oncology in relation to brain ...

For men who have a detectable PSA of 0.5 ng/mL or less after radical prostatectomy and before salvage radiation therapy, hormone therapy may provide no overall survival or metastasis-free survival ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul Hsieh, M.D., covers healthcare economics, innovation, and policy. Radiologists have fielded numerous questions in recent ...