What Doctors Don't Tell YouA hospital in Copenhagen has stopped using radiation therapy as first choice treatment for a condition caused by overactive thyroid, after it temporarily blinded one woman (Lancet, 1998; 351: 725) ...
Radiation is one of the cornerstones of cancer treatment - but it can also cause cancer, as a new study has found.
Chaos and clinical controversy rages at hospitals worldwide over the best way to treat prostate cancer. ...
A special radiotherapy treatment for brain tumours, hailed as a miracle cure by the British press, is far from that, say two leading specialists.
Men with prostate cancer are unlikely to gain any real benefit from androgen suppression procedures, either surgical or pharmacological, which are aimed at controlling male hormones. ...
A new review of the use of radiotherapy for breast cancer, involving 20,000 women, has turned up some worrying findings. ...
NON-HODGKIN: Doing nothing is as good as chemotherapy
Up to 50 per cent of cancer patients will be treated with radiotherapy. It may be used exclusively, or as a back up to chemotherapy or surgery. Like chemotherapy, it comes with its own range of si ...
Although brain cancer has a reputation for being rapidly fatal, roughly half of them are much less virulent, with sufferers living as long as 20 years after diagnosis.
THE SILENT EPIDEMIC: It may kill up to one in five, and yet nobody kn
