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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

New data from a long-term registry of patients undergoing PCI of a chronic total occlusion (CTO) shows that radiation dose has been decreasing over time, with newer equipment probably playing a role ...

Former US President Joe Biden, 82, has begun radiation therapy alongside ongoing hormone treatment to combat aggressive ...

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 ...

Compared with interventional cardiologists, interventional imagers are exposed to markedly higher levels of radiation during structural heart procedures, according to new single-center data. These ...

To reduce the amount of fluoroscopy or X-ray radiation, a team of researchers worked with imaging tools such as 3D mapping and ultrasound to develop a new standard for radiation-free electrophysiology ...