Decades after a landmark study showed the lasting health effects of such trauma, researchers are finding ways to guard ...

When Kat Denisi was diagnosed she said she was completely unprepared for one life-altering side effect.

Mohs microscopic surgery and image-guided superficial radiation therapy (IG-SRT) demonstrate high cure rates for non-melanoma ...

A team of researchers have identified a fundamental mechanism that links the 24-hour circadian cycle to the precise repair of DNA breaks. This study, conducted by researchers from the Andalusian ...

Isabella Strahan—who announced she was cancer-free in July 2024—returned to YouTube as she detailed her latest doctor visit and the "hardest" MRI she's ever experienced.

A low-cost scanner and smartphone may help identify high radiation exposure in emergencies, speeding triage when labs can’t ...

For the last 20 years, the standard-of-care adjuvant treatment for resected pathologically defined high-risk resected locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (LA-SCCHN) has been ...

A prospective phase I/II clinical trial led by QST Hospital reports that carbon-ion radiotherapy achieved five-year local control and disease-free survival rates of 92%, with no grade ≥2 toxicities, ...

Radiation has been a staple of breast cancer treatment for decades, but a new study is casting doubt on whether it is necessary or beneficial for some patients. The study published recently in the New ...

Researchers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered that patients with a low level of physical activity face a higher risk of developing lymphedema. They have also noted that a lymph scanner ...

(Article originally published in the August/September 1986 issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 42, Issue 7 “Chernobyl: The Emerging Story,” pages ...