A new preclinical study from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has identified a gut bacterium that, when ...

If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, you’re not alone—and you don’t have to wait long to take the next step. Whether you’re newly diagnosed, moving from active surveillance ...

Stephen De La Torre, 7, is usually all smiles. But on a recent Wednesday at Stanford Medicine’s cancer center in Palo Alto, the boy climbed resolutely into the chair of a first-of-its-kind treatment ...

Radiation therapy is a treatment that uses high-energy rays, like X-rays, gamma rays or protons, to target and destroy cancer cells. It works by damaging the DNA of cancer cells, preventing them from ...

Men treated for prostate cancer after surgery now have clearer evidence that extending hormone therapy from six months to two ...

A new study led by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai found that although the overall number of ...

A patient diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive form of terminal brain cancer, is marking seven years since his ...

Prostate cancer relapse treatment could be cut from 35 visits to just five. See how new radiation technology may change your ...

Doctors sometimes use radiation therapy to treat early stage non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (NHL). To treat advanced stages, they may recommend radiation therapy alongside other treatments, such as ...

Radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy) uses high-energy beams or subatomic particles to damage the DNA inside cervical cancer cells. After enough damage, the cells cannot multiply, and they die.

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 ...