External-beam radiation therapy (EBRT) is a treatment where radiation beams come from a source outside the body. Usually, it comes from a machine called a linear accelerator (also called a LINAC).

If you've been diagnosed with cancer, your doctor may suggest you get radiation therapy. It's a common treatment that shrinks tumors and kills cancer cells -- and might be the only one you need to ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Non-medical human imaging is the use of radiation to ...

Adjuvant therapies are additional treatments after primary treatment, like surgery, to help eliminate remaining cancer cells and reduce the risk of recurrence. Common types of adjuvant therapy may ...

For those of you who have been reading my blogs for some time you probably know that I worked at Analog Devices supporting high speed ADCs for many years and moved over to our space products group ...

Although radiation treatment is one of the primary methods to treat both brain tumors and brain metastases, it can be associated with several adverse effects that can be difficult to diagnose and ...

Radiation therapy is a treatment that uses high-energy rays, like X-rays, gamma rays or protons, to target and destroy cancer cells. It works by damaging the DNA of cancer cells, preventing them from ...