After receiving radiation therapy for uterine cancer, you may experience fertility challenges, vaginal dryness, and bowel or bladder problems. Options to manage and relieve your side effects can vary.

Radiation therapy is a common treatment for brain cancer. While it can effectively target and destroy cancer cells, it can also cause side effects. The side effects of radiation therapy for brain ...

A shorter radiation course improved quality of life among men with intermediate-risk, localized prostate cancer, according to ...

For patients with intermediate-risk, localized prostate cancer, radiation therapy delivered in five sessions reduced ...

Radiation therapy uses high-energy rays to destroy cancerous cells. Doctors may recommend a combination of radiation therapy and chemotherapy to treat esophageal cancer. Radiation therapy uses ...

A look at some of the more unconventional applications of radiation therapy reported at the ASTRO 2025 meeting ...

It is easy enough to kill cancer cells with large doses of radiation, but in most cases it is difficult to destroy the diseased cells without killing too many of the patient’s healthy cells at the ...

Floy Agnes Lee, known as Aggie,was a hematology technician at Los Alamos, N.M., in 1945. Recruited to the Manhattan Project straight out of college, she collected blood samples from many Manhattan ...