Radiation therapy is a common type of cancer treatment that uses high-energy particles or waves to damage or destroy cancer cells. Cancer cells usually spread by growing and dividing. Radiation ...

medical physics and radiation therapy technology. Radiotherapy can be delivered externally or internally. In external beam radiotherapy, radiation beams originating externally to the patient are ...

Treatment with five-fraction SBRT for prostate cancer may be more convenient than receiving traditional radiation therapy ...

Radiotherapy is either external (teletherapy) or internal (brachytherapy). Teletherapy refers to radiation therapy given by an external radiation source at a distance ... Healthy tissue, including ...

It was a radiation therapy machine. In layman’s terms it was a “cancer zapper”; a linear accelerator with a human as its target. Using X-rays or a beam of electrons, radiation therapy ...

ASHS – Rhode Island Proton Beam Radiation Therapy, a subsidiary of American Shared Hospital Services (AMS), has received a certificate of need (CON) for acquiring technology needed to build and ...

American Shared Hospital (AMS) Services announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, ASHS – Rhode Island Proton Beam Radiation Therapy, has officially obtained a Certificate of Need to acquire ...