Learn about the different types of radiation therapy, how they work, and what they're typically used to treat.

There are different types of radiation for men who have prostate cancer, including external beam radiation or radiation implants, otherwise known as brachytherapy or seeds. What determines what ...

Types of Radiation Therapy treatments.Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) With IMRT, the radiation beam closely matches the patient’s tumor and can be split into smaller beams of different ...

Here, we searched for signatures of ionizing radiation in 12 radiation-associated second malignancies of different tumour types.

Different types of radiation have different impacts on tissue, and those differences need to be taken into account when calculating dose, through weighting factors that reflect the relative ...

This was the consensus among participants of a seminar on the safe use of radiation in medicine held in Chile from 23 to 27 March 2015. The seminar addressed radiation safety in medical practice, ...

Amongst the lectures, technical demonstrations, field visits and hands-on activities, students measured the half-life of radioactive sources, decontaminated surfaces in a laboratory, handled different ...

That radiation is actually what causes sunburn, and we use sunscreen to help protect our skin against those harmful UV rays. But did you know that the sun emits three different types of UV radiation?