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- Radiation After Lung Cancer Surgery Doesn't Help All: Study
MONDAY, Feb. 13 (HealthDay News) -- For older people with a certain type and stage of lung cancer, administering radiation treatment after surgery may not extend survival, according to a new study. - Radiation treatment transforms breast cancer cells into cancer stem cells
( University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences ) Researchers with UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center report for the first time that radiation therapy -- despite killing half of all tumor cells during every treatment -- transforms other cancer cells into treatment-resistant breast cancer stem cells. - Radiation Treatment Generates Cancer Stem Cells from Less Aggressive Breast Cancer Cells
Breast cancer stem cells are thought to be the sole source of tumor recurrence and are known to be resistant to radiation therapy and don't respond well to chemotherapy. - Radiation Oncology Services of America, Inc. Congratulates Dr. Mark McCord of Atlanta Oncology Associates as he is ...
ATLANTA, Feb. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Radiation Oncology Services of America, Inc. (ROSA) congratulates partner Mark McCord, M.D., of Atlanta Oncology Associates who was honored at the 6 th Annual "Evening ... - Research and Markets: 2012 Radiation Toxicity (Radiation Sickness, Acute Radiation Syndrome) Pipeline Review
Research and Markets has announced the addition of Global Markets Direct's new report "Radiation Toxicity (Ra - Fetal exposure to radiation increases risk of testicular cancer
( University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center ) Male fetuses of mothers that are exposed to radiation during early pregnancy may have an increased chance of developing testicular cancer, according to a study in mice at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The article was published today in PLoS ONE. - Israeli lawsuit: Radiation caused cancer
DIMONA, Israel, Feb. 13 (UPI) -- Former workers at an Israeli nuclear reactor suffered cancer and other diseases caused by exposure to radiation while searching for uranium ore, a lawsuit says. - Radiation therapy may not benefit many older lung cancer patients
A new study has found that many older lung cancer patients get treatments that may not help them live longer. Published early online in CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the findings suggest that physicians should not routinely use radiation after surgery to treat lung cancer that is advanced but has not widely spread, at least in older patients. - New study casts doubt on lung cancer treatment
A controversial radiation treatment for patients who've had lung cancer surgery may not help elderly people live longer - Russia blames Mars probe failure on space radiation
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia blamed radiation on Tuesday for a computer glitch that doomed its Mars moon mission, but space industry experts cast doubt on the findings of an investigation into the crash of what was to be Moscow's first deep space mission in two decades. The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft was stranded in Earth orbit after launch in November and crashed into the Pacific Ocean this month ...