RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — VCU Health has debuted southern Virginia’s only radiation therapy machine with new Varian HyperSight technology. On Wednesday, June 11, leaders from VCU Health, donors and local ...

SSM St. Mary's Health Center has installed a new radiation therapy machine that will enable doctors to target cancer more accurately and treat it more aggressively ...

Over the next several years, The University of Vermont Health Network will install six new state-of-the-art linear accelerators for improved radiation treatments to combat cancer at Central Vermont ...

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 ...

Doctors may use radiation therapy to treat benign tumors. Radiation can shrink and eliminate benign growths without doctors having to perform surgery. Benign tumors are noncancerous growths that can ...

NORWALK — Norwalk Hospital is now offering a tattoo-less radiation therapy for all breast cancer patients, leaving them "with as little a reminder" as possible of their rigorous treatments as possible ...

With smaller radiation beams, intensity-modulated radiation therapy “takes precision to the next level” for patients with prostate, an expert told CURE®. Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) — ...

Receiving a diagnosis of cancer can be frightening and confusing. Often, patients are referred for consultation with a radiation oncologist to identify treatment options. A radiation oncologist is a ...

Radiation therapy is used to treat tumors of the liver that can’t be removed with surgery and that are too large for other treatment options. Radiation therapy alone isn’t a cure for liver cancer, but ...