Patients don’t feel the radiation as it’s delivered, and many treatments are provided in an outpatient setting.

Keck Graduate Institute (KGI), a member of The Claremont Colleges, has been awarded a significant grant from the Department of Energy to investigate the effects of low-dose radiation on human beings.

A sweeping narrative review argues that radiation's non-targeted effects, from bystander signaling to biophoton emission and ...

Proton therapy may reduce urinary, bowel and sexual side effects in prostate cancer by minimizing radiation exposure to healthy tissue, per Dr. Curtiland Deville Jr. Newer radiation technologies, such ...

Radiotherapy is a key foundation of oncologic treatment that is used across the spectrum of cancer indications. Advances in imaging, treatment planning, and dose delivery have led to increasingly ...

Deep space travel comes with a huge potential downside—radiation exposure that can kill an astronaut either quickly or slowly ...

In just a few short decades, the field of interventional cardiology has led to groundbreaking treatments for patients with cardiovascular and structural heart disease. But the radiation that helps ...

Experts say they might, and Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist network has been eager to acquire radioactive material. In the aftermath of September 11, scenarios that have particularly worried ...