It’s important to understand how radiation therapy fits into your treatment plan so you can make choices about your care. Surgery is part of breast cancer treatment for most people. Your doctor may ...

Even modern cancer treatments appear risky for the heart, especially if the radiation dose to the LAD is high.

A lumpectomy plus radiation is very effective for treating stage zero cancer, but new research suggests that active monitoring may be just as good.

But the MRI uncovered a tumor, and subsequent mammograms and biopsies confirmed she had breast cancer. Researchers at ...

Fishel said that she did not undergo surgeries or chemotherapy outside of her radiation treatment, and that she will now start Tamoxifen, a medication that can help reduce breast cancer ...

Is screening justified from a radiation protection perspective? Yes, when the norms of mammographic screening are adhered to. The calculated risk of breast cancer associated with the use of ionizing ...

When you have cancer, though, some cells start to divide way too fast. That's where radiation therapy can help. It uses high-energy particles to make tiny breaks in the DNA of cancer cells to ...