Thanks to a machine that’s new to the area, the radiation process has become shorter, less consequential and more effective.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...