Radiation therapy, alone or in combination with surgery and chemotherapy, is commonly used for the treatment of many cancers. Although radiation therapy can usually be delivered without resulting in ...

For some patients with early non-small cell lung cancer and lung scarring, stereotactic ablative radiotherapy may be a viable option, research has shown. Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) has ...

Eliminating a gene that regulates inflammation can significantly reduce long-term scarring caused by radiation therapy to the chest, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center investigators report. The findings, ...

If you have ventricular tachycardia, your doctor may give you medicine to slow your heart rate down. You might also need a catheter ablation. In this procedure, a doctor threads a thin tube through an ...

Cancer patients who suffer from a progressive, deep scarring of tissue following radiation treatment might benefit from a drug that's FDA-approved to treat vascular disease, according to a University ...

Scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine have made an intriguing discovery that could see radiation therapy become a less invasive treatment for heart arrhythmia. The technique seems ...

Radiation therapy is an essential treatment for prostate cancers. Complications from radiation are very rare, but occasionally men can develop a urethral stricture after radiation treatment. The ...

ST. LOUIS — Doctors are zapping the heart with radiation normally reserved for cancer, a bid to better treat people with life-threatening irregular heartbeats who’ve exhausted other options. While ...

Radiation therapy for ventricular tachycardia — a life-threatening irregular heart rhythm — appears to work by reverting heart muscle cells to a younger state, reducing the irregular rhythms, ...

New research by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that noninvasive radiotherapy, which is typically used to treat cancer, can reprogram heart muscle cells to ...

A single dose of radiation therapy typically used to treat cancer can “reprogram” your heart into a younger and healthier version of itself, new research shows. The biological renovation can replace a ...

A single dose of radiation therapy typically used to treat cancer can “reprogram” your heart into a younger and healthier version of itself, new research shows. The biological renovation can replace a ...