With EBRT, a large machine sends radiation waves to the site of cancer from outside the body. You can’t see the rays, and the apparatus doesn’t touch you but moves around you. The movement ...

In real life, she mostly just gravitates toward food. The Stanford Cancer Center today unveiled a breakthrough radiation machine it hopes will let patients spend less time getting treatments and ...

IMRT uses a linear accelerator, a computer-controlled machine that’s about the size of a small car. It sends high-energy radiation or X-rays to cancers. IMRT doesn’t hurt. You shouldn’t feel ...

He lost much of his hearing as well. Now, decades later, he feels fortunate a giant photon machine that delivered radiation directly to a cancerous mass in his rectum saved his life. Gomez ...

It’s a bad day when a doctor says you have cancer. It’s a worse day when he says it’s stage prostate cancer with a metastatic ...

Locking you down is understandable because the radiation machine (linear accelerator) wants you immobile to perform its precise work. That seems like a good idea. Pinned down, you can, of course ...