After receiving radiation therapy for uterine cancer, you may experience fertility challenges, vaginal dryness, and bowel or bladder problems. Options to manage and relieve your side effects can vary.

Genetic testing can identify patients with HPV-positive throat cancer who may benefit from lower radiation doses, according ...

In this lesson, students will investigate the nature of radioactivity and the effect of both distance and shielding materials on different radioactive sources using a Geiger-Muller tube with a counter ...

In the modern diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine, radiopharmaceuticals are successfully used for the diagnosis and, increasingly, for the treatment of diseases. Despite the increasing benefit ...

Radiotherapy is a major cancer treatment option but dose-limiting side effects such as late-onset fibrosis in the irradiated tissue severely impair quality of life in cancer survivors. Efforts to ...

Researchers have estimated this radiation exposure may be the cause of 1 in 10 blood cancers in children, including leukemia.

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(Example: Using data from the distance and shielding lab to understand the role that distance and shielding materials play in radiation exposure.) This lab was created with support from Dr. Nathaniel ...