After receiving radiation therapy for uterine cancer, you may experience fertility challenges, vaginal dryness, and bowel or bladder problems. Options to manage and relieve your side effects can vary.

(Example: Using data from the distance and shielding lab to understand the role that distance and shielding materials play in radiation exposure.) This lab was created with support from Dr. Nathaniel ...

Radiation therapy is the term for treatment types that use radiation to destroy or shrink cancer cells and tumors. The two main types of radiation therapy for treating cancer are external beam ...

Exposure to radiation is safe in small amounts and when it is strictly controlled during a medical exam such as an X-ray, for example. However, long-term exposure to small amounts of radiation can ...

THE acute radiation syndrome is an illness produced by exposure of the entire body, or a large part of the body, to ionizing radiations of a penetrating character. Although virtually unknown in ...

Space radiation, however, is different because it has sufficient energy to collide violently with the nuclei that make up shielding and human tissue. These so-called nuclear collisions cause both the ...

Radiotherapy is a major cancer treatment option but dose-limiting side effects such as late-onset fibrosis in the irradiated tissue severely impair quality of life in cancer survivors. Efforts to ...

In the modern diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine, radiopharmaceuticals are successfully used for the diagnosis and, increasingly, for the treatment of diseases. Despite the increasing benefit ...