Radiation has been a staple of breast cancer treatment for decades, but a new study is casting doubt on whether it is ...

Medical imaging using computed tomography, CT scans, give patients large doses of external radiation that carry well-known risks of inducing cancers. Positron emission tomography or PET scans also ...

After skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among men in the United States. In fact, one in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during their lifetime, ...

Approximately one in eight men will develop prostate cancer, which is the second-leading cause of cancer death in American men and typically affects patients who are 65 or older. Fortunately, the ...

As AI applications rapidly expand in healthcare, particularly in medical imaging and radiotherapy, the need for robust ...

Ionizing Radiation and Medicine X-rays have done much to conserve human life, but they have also doubled the exposure of people in advanced nations to radiation. The physician now has many ways to ...

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As we near the end of Women’s History Month, a time designated to commemorate the role of women in history, we will explore the life of a woman who made tremendous and long-lasting scientific ...

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WASHINGTON — To protect astronauts from cancer-causing radiation in space, NASA should proceed with proposals to set a universal career-long radiation dose limit of ~600 millisieverts (mSv), says a ...