OKLAHOMA CITY — Every year, Guthrie resident Donna Romine is diligent about getting her mammogram. In 2014, her diligence may have saved her life. “One year it wasn’t there, the next year it was,” ...
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 ...
A local guitarist couldn't play without pain until he discovered a non-invasive procedure using low-dose radiation therapy.
Compared with interventional cardiologists, interventional imagers are exposed to markedly higher levels of radiation during structural heart procedures, according to new single-center data. These ...
Brachytherapy is a type of radiation therapy. It involves placing radioactive material inside or near a tumor to destroy cancer cells. The procedure has some benefits over other radiation techniques ...
An IAEA research project involving 27 countries has strengthened global understanding of how exposure to ionizing radiation affects human health. The project focused on the clinical applications of ...
Shannon Brooks was at a point where he did not have many options to treat his heart condition besides a transplant; but Intermountain Health doctors identified him as a good candidate for a new method ...
Juno Vu has suffered numerous blackouts and a heart attack, but nothing his doctors tried was able to stop his uncontrolled rapid heartbeats. Vu has ventricular tachycardia, caused by malfunctioning ...