Wilmot Cancer Institute research team reports that combining a type of radiation therapy with immunotherapy not only cures pancreatic cancer in mice, but appears to reprogram the immune syst... Read more
SLAC and Stanford researchers secure support for two projects that share one goal: to reduce the side effects of radiation therapy by vastly shrinking the length of a typical session. New ac... Read more
MD Anderson researchers use supercomputers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to develop, test treatment target identification tool for head and neck cancers Before performing radiation... Read more
New findings show programmable biomaterials can be delivered using needle injection to induce an immune response and fight deadly diseases One of the reasons cancer is so deadly is that it c... Read more
In the fight against cancer, proton therapy is especially precise and is better able to spare healthy tissue compared to established, high-level, hard X-ray based radiation therapy The futur... Read more
A physician-controlled robotic device that destroys tumors with highly precise doses of radiation Stephen Wiley, a lifelong cowboy from Terrell, has helped UT Southwestern Medical Center pio... Read more
Patients at Henry Ford Hospital now have a new cancer treatment available that offers an alternative cancer surgery, without the incision or hospital stay, treating patients in 15 minutes or... Read more
Novel technology could one day help determine optimal window for cancer treatment The interstitial pressure inside a tumor is often remarkably high compared to normal tissues and is thought... Read more
The findings show that the procedure may translate into less downstream costs and fewer side effects from radiation and hormone therapy An observational study from UCLA’s Jonsso... Read more
Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) researchers say a compound derived from cruciferous vegetable such as cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli protected rats and mice from lethal doses... Read more
If the results are confirmed in humans, the implications for personalized therapies for other cancers could mean fewer radiation treatments, or perhaps, ideally, one single high-dose treatme... Read more
Reduced pain in 67 percent of patients who received the treatment Patients with cancer that has spread to their bones are often treated with radiation therapy to reduce pain. But if that tre... Read more
Mucositis is one of the most frequent side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy in cancer patients and currently cannot be treated. Scientists from the University of Granada have patente... Read more
Proton therapy is a safe and effective treatment for prostate cancer This study is important because it will help set normal tissue guidelines in future trials Over three years, 196 patients... Read more
